Yasmin Ahmad Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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She was incredible -- nothing stopped her at all. Whenever I felt ill, I always used to remember that in the same circumstances she would battle on, no matter how she felt. She never gave up.
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While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
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God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).