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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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The international community have to create pressure on Saleh. One, they have to establish an international commission so they can investigate the killing that is happening...Without that justice, and if they leave Saleh alone, there will be no security and peace, not only in Yemen and our region, but also around the world.
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I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
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Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming
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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.
