Maysoon Zayid Quotes

Not wearing hijab has seriously, seriously hurt my career. Mass media wants to see a woman in a veil. But I think it helps me because it makes it easier for my audience to relate to me. I'm not the scary 'other' they keep seeing on 'Fox News.'

Maysoon Zayid

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I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

Jim DeMint

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Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

Amy Landecker

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I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.

Amy Tan

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I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

Simon Toyne

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I spot detail quickly.

Mickey Drexler

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I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

Michelle Branch

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The most useful information on CNN is when Anthony Bourdain tells me where to eat noodles.

Michelle Wolf

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The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

Michael Medved

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In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

Joyce Giraud

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When it comes to the Cowboys, I always play great against them.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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It's strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

Josh Radnor

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The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Connie Sellecca

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