Leila Aboulela Quotes
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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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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 Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat
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Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
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I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.
