Zainab Salbi Quotes
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
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I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.
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I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
