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 think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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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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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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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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The first telephones cost a thousand dollars and they were about that big! We all remember that!
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.
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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
