Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
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I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
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I think we're going in the right direction.
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The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
