Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
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No, Mr. Williams, certainly not; if Mr. Drake a solicitor of the English Railway Company has purchased a 'Turner', he ought to know it is a Turner; I was once silly enough to look at a picture that I was told had been painted by me, and I found myself soon after stuck up in a witness-box, giving evidence about it; I then said I'll never be so silly again.
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If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments
