Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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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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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
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You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
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The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.
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We must do everything, apply everything, apply every diplomatic, every political pressure so that the U.N. is successful that the inspectors are let into the country again and that we know exactly what weapons Saddam Hussein owns.
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All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
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You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
