Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

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• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Person
  • Himself
  • Uneducated

• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • School
  • Never
  • Smart

• Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Up
  • Words
  • Way

• Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Today
  • Year
  • Back

• The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Important
  • Most
  • Victim

• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Mistakes
  • System
  • Only

• 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

  

  Kate Burton
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Long
  • Think
  • Food

• The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • American
  • Perfect

• In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Women
  • Mistake
  • Economy

• All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Support

• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  

  Al Franken
  • Life
  • Mistake

• We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Great
  • Done
  • Financial

• Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Poison

• I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Way
  • Learn
  • Surf

• I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Mad

• Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed