Maysoon Zayid Quotes

See, I'm totally fearless. I got my chops in the most, like, dangerous comedy atmosphere. If you can make it in New York, you can really do stand-up anywhere.

Maysoon Zayid

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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Max Lerner

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It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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It's one of the wonderful things that the Academy does - a talented person comes along like Mira Sorvino, and it elevates them up to stardom.

Michael Cimino

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As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

John Sununu

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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

Mason Cooley

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I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Rumi

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As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

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I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

Chelsea Handler

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As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

Britt Ekland

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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Annalee Newitz

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