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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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
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
Modernity is not about dress codes.
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Code Dress Dresses Modernity
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
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
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
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’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
The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Clothes Creative Expression
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
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
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
Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people.
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Distrust Doubt People