Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
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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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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
