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Manal al-Sharif Quotes

In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.

Manal al-Sharif

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: saudi arabian
Birth: April 25, 1979

Topics

Education Good Women You Know Tell

What's wrong with 'Mario Bros. 3?' Not a damn thing.

Melanie Scrofano

Wrong Damn Bros Mario Damn Thing

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do.

Max von Sydow

Work Feel Too Much Things Just Much

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

John Knoll

Everything Something Paid Been

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

Steven Spielberg

Father War Growing Up Growing Head

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Rose Wilder Lane

Life Best Damn Way Poor Things

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Maryanne Wolf

Work Simple Brain Reading Present

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Miriam Toews

Writing Advice Ignore Page Blood

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Luis Palau

God Never Begin Illusions Us He

I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.

Julia Sawalha

Life Good Time Law Thinking Physics

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

Julia Hartz

Trying You Always Little Industry

Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.

Jonas Gahr Store

Courage Ideas Face Key Convictions

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Life Hope Rest My Life Acting I Can