Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
Quotes to Explore
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of our faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
