Isaiah Mustafa (Isaiah Amir Mustafa) Quotes

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Isaiah Mustafa

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• Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Fashion
  • Out
  • Polo

• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • World
  • Kids
  • Focus

• In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Big
  • Early

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Down

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Bridges

• So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Long
  • Country

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Noise
  • Vacuum

• Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

  

  Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach
  • Children

• An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Attention
  • Goods

• Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Friend
  • Mentor

• Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • People
  • Community
  • Groups

• What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

  

  Bono U2
  • Praise
  • Gospel
  • Psalms

• Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Strikes

• Marines getting baptized? This used to be a place of men with pure warrior spirit. Chaplains are a goddamn waste.

  

  Evan Wright
  • Spirit
  • Warrior
  • Waste

• As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

  

  David Dixon
  • Support
  • Blind
  • Produce

• I think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Tears
  • Election
  • Trade

• If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

  

  Isaiah Mustafa
  • Ability
  • Waste
  • Athletic