Dalia Mogahed Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
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Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
