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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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.
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By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
