Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.
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I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
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I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.
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If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
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When I need God most, He comes
