Hamza Yusuf Quotes
We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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I am who I am, and I'm not going to tell someone I don't have the worldview I have. That doesn't mean I'm not open-minded and won't meet with anybody.
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As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.
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The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
