Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.
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It was the beginning of the end of my affiliation to the church
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How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?
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If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
