Leila Slimani Quotes
I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.
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When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
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When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
