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Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.

Queen Rania of Jordan

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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Fleeting Judgment Television
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Models People Role Wish
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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Distrust Doubt People
We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
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Our Thinking Today World
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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People Population Thinking
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Protect Shields Throw
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens