Archimedes Quotes
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I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
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My interests are not really with television, per se.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
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Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
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A woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
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'So, um...are you alone out here?''I was,' she said.
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I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions: ...
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We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.
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We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.
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Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?
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Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).
