Queen Noor of Jordan Quotes
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.
Quotes to Explore
-
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
-
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
-
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
-
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
-
I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
-
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
-
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
-
I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
-
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
-
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
-
I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
-
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
-
Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
-
I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
-
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
-
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.
