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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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
