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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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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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.
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In times past, knowledge of the bowel was more widespread and people were taught how to care for the bowel. Somehow bowel wisdom got lost and it became something that no one wanted to talk about anymore.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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No matter what you wear, not everyone is going to understand what you're saying.
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Sometimes when you write, you say things I stopped myself from saying.
