Maysoon Zayid Quotes
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.
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If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
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I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot.
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
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The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
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The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.