Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
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I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
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Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
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I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
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Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
