Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I would like to see America some day.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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I'm always on Instagram! I'm like an Instagram stalker.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
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Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.
