Maysoon Zayid Quotes

I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

Maysoon Zayid

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People always ask what's it like to grow up as a Kennedy. It's a family. It's big, it's large, it's amazing. You've got strong personalities with strong opinions. And we'll come out differently on some of those opinions.

Joe Kennedy III

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

John Keats

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The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

Steve Erickson

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I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

Stephen Hough

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My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

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A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

Tommy Chong

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I write most songs randomly. They don't always deal with something I've been through but something I think is important to tell.

Tony Oller

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The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Ruzwana Bashir

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You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

Lorrie Moore

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I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

Derek Jeter

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Life is unpredictable and you need to live every day to the fullest.

Doug Hutchison

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My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump

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