Bassem Youssef Quotes
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
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The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
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I've never really fit in anywhere.
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All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
