Maysoon Zayid Quotes
I've had the same best friends since I was five years old; they're still my best friends. I was never bullied. I was never made fun of.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now.
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Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.
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Where there is no work, there is no dignity.
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We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
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I've had the same best friends since I was five years old; they're still my best friends. I was never bullied. I was never made fun of.
