Yasmine Al Masri Quotes
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
