Leila Aboulela Quotes

My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.

Leila Aboulela

Recitation: by Male by Female

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  • Author Profession: writer
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  • Birth: 1964

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That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Joe Elliott

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Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

Joan Jett

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I'm not worried about state parks. I'm worried about people who can't be treated because they have schizophrenia or other mental illnesses out there. I'm worried about people.

Robert J. Bentley

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In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Andy Roddick

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If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

John the Apostle

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I like things with upside. That's how you make money.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Mary Astell

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Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

Monica Crowley

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The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

Louis Leterrier

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Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord Byron

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There is absolutely no planning and strategising involved in my career graph.

Juhi Chawla

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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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