Tahereh Mafi Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I'm easily entertained.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
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We obviously need his defense at some level. It's good to have him back in the offense, but we weren't smooth with him in there offensively, though.
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For some people, the principle of the caste system will remain in effect: The reward for the obedient is to be transported after death to some fabulous other world where, according to the old beliefs, good people are rewarded.
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The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.
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I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
