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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You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.
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I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
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I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
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Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
