Maysoon Zayid Quotes

In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.

Maysoon Zayid

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• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Boxing

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• I don't want to get fat.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Want
  • Get
  • Fat

• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Home
  • Rich

• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Movie

• I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Guy
  • Player
  • Horse

• I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Power
  • Think

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Change
  • Wish

• I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Lesbian

• Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canadian Indians: 'I've told you what a foul decadent lazy crowd they are & what I think of them !! But this camp is pitched right inside an Indian reserve … & we have hundreds of the mouldy local tribe camped around us' (6 October 1919)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Lazy
  • October

• It is very conceivable, that the labor of man alone laid out upon a work, requiring great skill and art to bring it to perfection, may be more productive, in value, than the labour of nature and man combined, when directed towards more simple operations and objects

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Good
  • Art

• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Integrity

• I saw a feeding about a lion for plants, I saw leaves of luxuriant growth. I saw a branch with equal blossoms. Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs, I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Growth
  • Prince
  • Lion

• I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Eyes
  • Vision
  • Famous

• Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Help

• I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.

  

  David Shields
  • Believe
  • Transformation

• I'm so proud, and it feels brilliant to be a world champion.

  

  Liam Smith
  • World
  • Proud
  • Champion

• In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Lion