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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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
I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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Believe Culture Perception
I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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Loses Sleep Worry
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
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 want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
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Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Expressison Home Husband Personal Son
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
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
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Country Girl Looks
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
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
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype