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" I have to make sure I don't eat too much chocolate. You can't imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate. "
Sibel Kekilli
Hard
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Too Much
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" I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact. "
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