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've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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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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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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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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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
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I love Under Armour, and I would like stockholders to know that I am very committed to our company.
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In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
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You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
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If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
