Rima Fakih Quotes
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
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Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.
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One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
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It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
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It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
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I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.
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And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.
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I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.
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I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
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My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
