Zainab Salbi Quotes
I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I think all politicians lie.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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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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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
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We're all born bald, baby.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
