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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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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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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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
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I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'
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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too.
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That's the great thing about having your friends around you. I've known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn't ask for a better work environment.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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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.
