I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMy role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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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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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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Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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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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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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Modernity is not about dress codes.
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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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I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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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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Being queen is overrated.
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The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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