Hamza Yusuf Quotes
To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
