Maysoon Zayid Quotes
I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I'm not super into sports.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.
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I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
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I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.
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I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
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I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.
