Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.
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During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.
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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
