I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMy position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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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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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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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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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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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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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
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