Bassem Youssef Quotes
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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I'm at the stage in my pregnancy where I don't feel pregnant. You feel very, 'Oh yeah, I'm pregnant,' because you're over the morning sickness and it's not too uncomfortable. It's fun.
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Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.
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We just like to make great songs and have fun, and if people want to nominate us for a Grammy and celebrate it, then we'll take it.
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
