Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Love your flaws, and own your quirks.
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The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
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So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
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To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
