Zainab Salbi Quotes
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
