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I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.
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Believe Out Speaks Thinking
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
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
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
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
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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Focus Gossip Rumor
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
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
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
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
I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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Hurt People Women World
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
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