Anis Mansour Quotes
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact.
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
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Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
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One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.
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The Great Depression, they come out with the New Deal, black people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages. The New Deal set up what is known as the modern-day middle class. We didn't have access to programs - the G.I. Bill, Social Security, home loans - none of that.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
