Mona Eltahawy Quotes

To me, Egypt is a wonderful history, a wonderful people, and it's represented through artists like Om Kalthoum, who is considered the fourth pyramid of Egypt. She's a wonderful diva whose voice, for me, is really Egyptian.

Mona Eltahawy

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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Maya Angelou

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At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

Maya Angelou

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People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.

Amanda Donohoe

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I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

Tony Hawk

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No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Russell M. Nelson

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You don't ask about what can be seen.

Juan Gabriel

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I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

Chuck Inglish

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If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Bob Taft

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You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Anthony Daniels

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I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

Sydney Brenner

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The thing about veterans, they know how to challenge the establishment. They're not afraid to take on the people in control. They're not afraid to put people over politics or over their political party.

Seth Moulton

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When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it.

Rza

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