Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
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Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
