Nelly Mazloum Quotes
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender
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My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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I'm a brand ambassador. I've been a fan of Nip+Fab for a while, so it fit perfectly. I just love their stuff.
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The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
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I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.
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I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
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I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
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I just never wanted to be in a position where I wouldn't be able to walk down the street holding my partner's hand.
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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
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I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that’s fifty more years of the Great I-Am. No wonder I want to make away with myself. Who wouldn’t?
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I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.
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In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.
