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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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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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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We are here to entertain and ultimately put smiles on people's faces.
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And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.
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I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity.
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That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
