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Mona Eltahawy Quotes

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: egyptian
Birth: August 1, 1967

Topics

Better Know Knows Than Obama Bush

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Right Up Here Virginia Segregated

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

Water New York You New Village

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

Power Law Computer Sophistication

To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

Work Good Father Think You Want

To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Identity Me American Person Chicago

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Men Greatness Action Famous Dignity

It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

Music Thinking Surprise Attention

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

People Think You Country Place Kids

I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.

Deborah Harkness

People Me Think Plan Sometimes

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

Mirror Myself Posing Canvas Model

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Faith Truth Great Discovery Prove

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

Life Great Born Place First Years

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