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.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
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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!
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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'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.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
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Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.
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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.
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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.
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I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
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The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
