Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I know what poverty is.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
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My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.
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Man, who don't like spaghetti?
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I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. I’m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
