Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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We’re the only entertainment company that tours this much. And we keep expanding.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
