Maysoon Zayid Quotes
See, I'm totally fearless. I got my chops in the most, like, dangerous comedy atmosphere. If you can make it in New York, you can really do stand-up anywhere.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
Gail Devers -
We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
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The problem is, when Oprah lost all that weight, her head didn't get any smaller. And so she looks kind of like a person carrying a balloon.
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See, I'm totally fearless. I got my chops in the most, like, dangerous comedy atmosphere. If you can make it in New York, you can really do stand-up anywhere.
