Maysoon Zayid Quotes
I think there's a backlash against minorities in this country and that part of what caused that was the fact that a black man became president. And a certain portion of the privileged population think their privilege is at stake, and they want it back.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
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Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I'm totally myself.
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Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
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I think there's a backlash against minorities in this country and that part of what caused that was the fact that a black man became president. And a certain portion of the privileged population think their privilege is at stake, and they want it back.
