Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I don't persuade to suicide.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.
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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.
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Girl, next time he wants to knowWhat your problem isNext time he wants to knowWhere the anger comes fromJust tell him this time the problem's hisTell him the anger just comesIt just comes.
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These people must be helped to find themselves in this new world, but they must not know that they’re being helped. To let them know would destroy confidence and dignity, and human dignity is the keystone of any civilization.
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.
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A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.
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I genuinely enjoy sweating out my frustrations and living a healthier life. My workouts are not all about vanity. They are about clarity for my mind and soul.
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I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.
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I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.
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I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
