Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Don't worry about what the people say. Sometimes they'll praise you. Sometimes they'll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I like to be comfortable. And I think men tend to dress more comfortably than ladies. They can just put on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, and I like doing that. Comfort first.
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In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
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Don't worry about what the people say. Sometimes they'll praise you. Sometimes they'll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
