Mona Eltahawy Quotes

When I first read Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' it was Saudi Arabia as I knew it that came to mind, not a dystopian future United States as in the new television adaptation.

Mona Eltahawy

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Robert McKee

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If you're out there stressing on your pro day, then you're not going to perform well, so I plan on having a little fun. Play a little music while we're out there throwing the football, have everybody tapping their toes and bobbing their head and just go out there and make the most of the experience.

Robert Griffin III

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When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that's honestly how science should work.

Amy Cuddy

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As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Steve Yzerman

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The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.

Marvin Ammori

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Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

Mike McCready

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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Livy

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I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.

Jazz Jennings

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T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Debby Ryan

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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

Avi

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I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.

Winona LaDuke

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