Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.
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I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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God is no more intimidated by childish demands for instant gratification than are wise parents.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!
