Yasmine Al Masri Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.
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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
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And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
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My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
