Leila Aboulela Quotes
My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.
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There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
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In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.
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I tried to play Piazzolla's 'Grand Tango' at 20 and failed miserably. You need a little experience of life for tango.
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We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.
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My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.
