Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
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Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.
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Joy is God in the marrow of our bones.
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Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.
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Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
