Zainab Salbi Quotes
Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
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I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.
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What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of not just making money but meeting women. That was very exciting job. I loved that job.
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Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
