Confucius Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
