Yasmin Ahmad Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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'All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.'
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I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
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When you’re unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open
