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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I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
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I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.
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There's so much overlapping in science fiction.
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I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
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I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.
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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.
