Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
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As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
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The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
