Bassem Youssef Quotes
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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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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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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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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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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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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Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.
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The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
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At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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The dumbest thing is when fans get so nervous that they treat you like shit. I'm so fascinated by it. I'll be like.
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Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.
