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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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.
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Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
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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.
