Manal al-Sharif Quotes
While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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Cinema was my rite of passage.
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I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
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I don't regret anything I haven't done.
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Cities must be fun.
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While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.
