Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
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We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, 'Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone'.
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Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
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If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
