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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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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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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You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
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Kids are anarchy writ large.
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Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.
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Speak your name And I'll feel a thrill. You said I do, And I said I will.I tell you that I'll stay true, And give you just a little time. Wait on me baby, I want you to be all mine. I just get so blue.Since you've been gone, baby (why'd you do it? why'd you have to do it?)
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For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
