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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?

Queen Rania of Jordan

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
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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Clothes Creative Expression
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Devotion God Mean 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
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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Day Misperception One Stereotype
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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Day End Essence Important
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
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
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
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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Common Sense Girl Moral
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
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
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
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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Believe Children World