Mona Eltahawy Quotes
I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.
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O let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.
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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
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The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
