Mona Eltahawy Quotes

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the 'lunatics with beards' he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

Mona Eltahawy

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SupportPlayingUsedAlliesMiddle

I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

Jerry West

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There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

Jerry Nachman

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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Johann Georg Hamann

ThreeMoreSingleRepeatOnlyWould

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an important and much-admired British official.

Michael Dirda

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I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

Amber Valletta

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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

Robert Casey

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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Roger Waters

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In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Michel Faber

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I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Constance Wu

FunnyMeWorldThinkYouBad

My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

Allison Pearson

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I'm pretty adventurous - the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I'll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I'll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it's just more fun.

Poppy Delevingne

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