Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
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I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.
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I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.
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We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.
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The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
