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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

Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
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
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN

Communist Hardest Misperception Religion Women
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 youth are the catalysts for real change.
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Catalyst Real Youth
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
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
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
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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Fighting Media Rights
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
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Changing Future Girl World
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
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
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