Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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If I wanna be president, I probably can.

Jesse Ventura

PresidentWanna

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

Joely Richardson

LoveDaughterTimeStartThinking

The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.

Jeremy Corbyn

SpaceCityOldSizePalaceSide

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeMarriageBattleRosesBedLike

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring

GoodConflictDemocracyLivingDuty

Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.

Mo Ibrahim

SuccessHopePathAfricaFollow

Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out.

Chingy

MusicShoesFunPeopleListening

Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.

Bob Beckel

FamilyChildrenServiceWorldWrong

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

Bruce Feiler

GodHopeWordsWorldCreateForget

There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.

Anne Donovan

StandOutWhereLikeIncognito

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

LearnYouSeeAvoidShouldCalamity

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Sherrod Brown

FinanceWarBuildingMissionMatter

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