Deeyah Khan Quotes

Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.

Deeyah Khan

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DiversityWorldHumanityAcceptOwn

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

Andrew J. Bernstein

LifeStressThoughtsRememberGoing

I don't do things that I'm not good at.

Amanda Seales

GoodThings

The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate.

Amanda Foreman

CommunicationWomenFireMenMan

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Tom Landry

DefeatSomethingEveryLearned

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

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I don't like competition in relationships.

Molly Sims

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The thing I know about Diana Trout is that she's the hardest-working person. She even says it in season one - that nobody works harder than she does. I believe that's always been true about her. That is why she has high expectations of everyone around her.

Miriam Shor

BelieveExpectationsPersonKnowWhy

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

Lori Foster

ChildrenSupportThinkHelpAnimals

My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures.

Louise Erdrich

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I'm just a huge dork, and I hope I always am.

Janet Varney

HopeAlwaysDorkJustAmHuge

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

Jonathan Haidt

LiveExpectationsThinkSomeoneUp

Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.

Boots Riley

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