Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
Quotes to Explore
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
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It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.
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I dropped a guy getting a hot dog. A few holes later, he was OK. But it was awful.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
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If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...
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I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.
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When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.
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No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.
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Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
