Suheir Hammad Quotes
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I like being unconventional.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man.
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Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
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Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.
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I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
