Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Broadway is really my life.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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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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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.
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Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
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I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
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Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
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I'm not really in a rush to grow up.
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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
