Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women in parliament who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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At a time when every series we're supposed to be DVR-ing is very important, very serious, has to do with heavy, heavy matters, I think 'Wet Hot' provides a respite to that DVR homework. It's totally the gummy bears of your programming.
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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.
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We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.
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It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women in parliament who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
