Bassem Youssef Quotes

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

Bassem Youssef

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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
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• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
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• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • Nothing
  • More

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Support

• Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Change
  • Single
  • Motherhood

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Guy
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• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Present
  • Yourself
  • Laugh

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
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  • American

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
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  • Problem

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dying

• When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like. But you go into a room with 4,000 people or 2,000 people who know your movie, know the lines, and know the characters; it's really a lot of fun.

  

  Kevin Heffernan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Remember
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  • Hillary Clinton

• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Search

• But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

  

  John Frankenheimer

• You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • American
  • Fun
  • Single