Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
We can't allow a group or a handful of armed groups or militias to threaten the holding of elections in a fair and free environment. We can't allow them to hijack the electoral process.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
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I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.
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Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?
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I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.
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As a youth, I and most of the other smarter kids in school got picked on by bullies. I was a big guy - even at a young age - and would take the beatings for my friends, who were often smaller and scrawnier.
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I was such a dork in high school. I like - I played sports. I played in the symphony. I auditioned all the time. I was thrown off the sports teams for auditioning all the time.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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We can't allow a group or a handful of armed groups or militias to threaten the holding of elections in a fair and free environment. We can't allow them to hijack the electoral process.
