Amal El-Mohtar Quotes
Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
