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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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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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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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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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 don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.
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I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.
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There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
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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.
