Zainab Salbi Quotes
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
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I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.
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It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
