Hamza Yusuf Quotes
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.