Tawakkol Karman Quotes
The killing of Gaddafi means a lot. That means dictatorships is going down and is done, and there are a lot of scenarios for the end of those dictators...In Yemen, we will have our own scenario. We will not go in the direction of violence.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
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The killing of Gaddafi means a lot. That means dictatorships is going down and is done, and there are a lot of scenarios for the end of those dictators...In Yemen, we will have our own scenario. We will not go in the direction of violence.
