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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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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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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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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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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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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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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Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
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I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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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
