Independent person Quote by Yasmine Hamdan

“You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.”

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Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

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World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.

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It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,…

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I'm bored, normally, when I travel.

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Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to…

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Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

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I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

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'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women…

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With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

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I studied psychology at university.

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Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.

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The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

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I've worked with a variety of presidents over the years on both sides of the aisle and congressmen and senators, so I'm not into trying to demonize anybody. It used to be that people would fight like hell on the floor of the house and they'd go have a beer together. Now it's like you're radioactive if you talk to…

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“I strip myself emotionally when I confess need – that I would be lost without you, that I am not necessarily the independent person I have tried to appear, but am a far less admirable weakling with little clue of life’s course or meaning. When I cry and tell you things I trust you will keep for yourself, that would…

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The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.

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“There is a foundational need inherent in every human person to love someone and to be loved. The self is completed and integrated and wholesome only when there is rapport with others. Mental hospitals are full of people who cannot communicate with others. They distrust, dislike, hate, and finally withdraw from the world of other persons. The condition is called…

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