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 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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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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Hope can make people do terrible things.
