Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
Pat Burns -
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
Barry Eisler -
The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
Dana Perino -
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
P. J. O'Rourke -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith -
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
J. J. Abrams -
I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
Carey Mulligan -
For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
Ian Mckellen -
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Salman Rushdie -
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
Dallas Willard -
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
Haile Selassie -
I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
Rachel Kushner -
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
Gary David Goldberg
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It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.
Leon Uris -
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Bob Beauprez -
I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.
Paulo Coelho -
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
Idries Shah -
There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.
Dara Torres -
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
Yasmin Mogahed