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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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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We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
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It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.
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I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.
