Mona Eltahawy Quotes
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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Don't throw out buzz words without really knowing what is going on behind it.
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work.
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One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.
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Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove?
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever.
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Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."
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I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.
