Tawakkol Karman Quotes
...We are in one world. We are one nation. And therefore, what’s common in between us, what should be common among us, is love and peace.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
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I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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...We are in one world. We are one nation. And therefore, what’s common in between us, what should be common among us, is love and peace.
