Zainab Salbi Quotes
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world.
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Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.
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It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.