Maysoon Zayid Quotes
I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.
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I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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The cast of 'The Big C' is such an amazing group of people. They're so joyful and just open their arms to you as an actor.
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I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.
