Yasmin Alibhai Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
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It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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It's easy to stereotype twins into any role. There's not a lot of great twin roles written, and oftentimes, when there are, they're given to a single actor who green screens themselves into both places.
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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
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Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
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My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends.
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I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.
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Podcasting is great. Total freedom.
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There are millions and millions of people who are tired of establishment politics, who are tired of corporate greed, who want a candidate that will help lead a mass movement in this country. ... What people are saying is, 'Enough is enough. The billionaire class cannot have it all.'
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Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.
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Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.
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Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.
