Malala Yousafzai Quotes
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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New York is my home.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.
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On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.
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I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
