Dalia Mogahed Quotes
How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Saturdays one - was a hit. If it's not good enough, then he won't do it.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.
