Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
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I am not too intelligent.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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We couldn't predict what would happen with 'Roots.' You knew there were powerful moments that were going to affect people. We were making the film while the book was being completed. We were fortunate because the hardcover book was out and on the best-seller list. The heat was still on.
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Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.
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You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.
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It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.
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I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
