Leila Aboulela Quotes
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.
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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
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I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
