Leila Aboulela Quotes
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.
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'Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.'
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.
