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Being queen is overrated.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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
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
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
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 want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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Person Sacrifice Want
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
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
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
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 believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.
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Believe Rich Understanding
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process
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
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
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
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life

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