Dawud Wharnsby Ali Quotes
My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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The facts are on our side.
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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.
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Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.
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The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
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The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.
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My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.
