Rula Jebreal Quotes

#1. My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there ... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

Rula Jebreal

#2. As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or 14, girls get married.

Rula Jebreal

#3. Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

Jack London

#4. We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.

John O. Brennan

#5. My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

Rula Jebreal

#6. My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

Rula Jebreal

#7. I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be
hold hands.

George W. Bush

#8. What I love most about New York is that I can walk in the street and nobody is looking at me as if I'm different. In my country and in Italy, you have to choose sides. I was a famous journalist and I was also an immigrant and ultimately I never stopped feeling like I was a guest.

Rula Jebreal

#9. The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so
as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the
universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness.

Albert Camus

#10. We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.

Debi Mazar

#11. I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.

Rula Jebreal

#12. You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

George Wells Beadle

#13. You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

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#14. There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.

Rula Jebreal

#15. The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Al Ries

#16. Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?

Anne Sweeney

#17. I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.

Rula Jebreal

#18. The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

Rula Jebreal

#19. Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back!

T.F. Hodge

#20. There's something that scares me. It's the way media in the United States presents the rest of the world. I feel like people in America are getting a completely different picture of what's going on in other countries than what is reality.

Rula Jebreal

#21. He was supposed to record in the studio this afternoon, and pow - he gets shot. This fuckin' album is cursed, I tell you.

Olivia Cunning