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.Maysoon Zayid
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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.
Barbra Streisand -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
Yair Lapid -
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.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
Barry Diller -
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
Uta Hagen
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett -
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
Kara Swisher -
The Internet is a toilet. It is.
Lady Gaga -
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.
Sally Hawkins -
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
Yousuf Karsh
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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.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
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.
Dan Harmon -
I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
Halsey -
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman -
I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.
Barbara Hershey -
I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
A. R. Rahman
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If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.
Yehuda Berg -
My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.
Kehinde Wiley -
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Benjamin F. Wade -
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.
Maysoon Zayid