Amal El-Mohtar Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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I think that people don't necessary fight with or aren't necessarily beaten by weapons, but it' through their minds and what they think they can do.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.
