Leila Aboulela Quotes
That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see me walk by with my husband. They're like, 'What? You're married? You're not old enough to be married.' Thank you. I'm glad that you think that.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well.
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That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
