Dalia Mogahed Quotes
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
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Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.
