Nawal El Saadawi Quotes
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
Zoey Deutch -
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
B. B. King -
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
Sadhu Vaswani -
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone -
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
Tanya Tucker -
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde -
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker -
Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova -
I'm blind without my glasses.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Yoko Ono -
Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
Ioan Gruffudd -
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra -
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
Orson Welles -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.
Adriana Trigiani -
The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
Gary Vaynerchuk -
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.
John McCain -
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey -
Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
Nawal El Saadawi