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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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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The soul is joined to and is separated from the body. Therefore, the soul is corporeal.
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Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.
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I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.
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A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.
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The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.
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I'm a cigar person, I don't smoke one every day, but I used to smoke them, and I had my own cigar at one time. So, I'm fairly knowledgeable about that.
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Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.
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I have to believe that if I keep doing what I'm doing, the results will reflect that, and I'll give myself plenty more opportunities to win.
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
