Waris Dirie Quotes
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.