Leila Slimani Quotes
Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
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I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
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It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.
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You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
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Let's stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that's only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.
