Toubia Quotes

#1. The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.

Eve Ensler

#2. I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.

Emeraude Toubia

#3. It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

Mike Dirnt

#4. I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

Emeraude Toubia

#5. I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

Kelli O'Hara

#6. I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.

Emeraude Toubia

#7. I'm actually not a big coffee fan, so I don't drink it that much. I'd rather have a green tea. But I do love to get a white mocha sometimes - it is just a strong order.

Emeraude Toubia

#8. I don't go up to guys. I'm all about a guy sending me flowers, getting me chocolates and surprising me.

Emeraude Toubia

#9. It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Jesus Christ

#10. In my closet, you'd find five black shirts that look the same, 10 pairs of the same white pants, and five pairs of almost the exact same shoe. Every time I go out, I buy shoes that are very similar to my other shoes - it's a problem.

Emeraude Toubia

#11. I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.

Emeraude Toubia

#12. Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'

Emeraude Toubia

#13. I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood.

Emeraude Toubia

#14. The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

Sara Genn

#15. Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

Ani DiFranco

#16. I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Emeraude Toubia

#17. I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.

Lav Diaz

#18. Everything that comes your way is to learn - I definitely feel that.

Emeraude Toubia

#19. Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.

Emeraude Toubia

#20. It's nice to be able to do more and to always challenge myself.

Emeraude Toubia

#21. Increasing dietary consumption of the brassica vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, and Brussels sprouts, as well as allium vegetables such as onions, leeks, and garlic can all increase glutathione activity and offset the risk caused by this mutation.

Daniella Chace

#22. When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.

Emeraude Toubia

#23. Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

Meryl Streep

#24. I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

Emeraude Toubia

#25. I love to shop at BCBG, because it's classy and elegant but a little bit sexy. It fits who I am in one store.

Emeraude Toubia

#26. I did a lot of dancing when I was young.

Emeraude Toubia

#27. Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.

Emeraude Toubia