Yara Shahidi Quotes

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.

Yara Shahidi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 10, 2000

Topics

PathIdentityParentsMeAmerican

What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.

Joe Gebbia

JoyPeopleWorldMeetingGreeting

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

John Hickenlooper

PeopleCityTryingRunFirstHard

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

Robin Wright

WifeWantAlwaysTorturedSoulful

If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you.

Rodrigo Duterte

YouNothingWillHappenJournalist

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

Ronnie Spector

HappyBe HappyWantStageGetSing

I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.

Mary Beard

BackLivingRoomSomewhereJust

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

Monique Coleman

SchoolNightHigh SchoolYearHigh

The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination.

Mildred Dresselhaus

RelationshipTimePeopleAttention

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.

Joshua Michael Stern

ComputersSexyDoingYouActiveGet

When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.

Jon Bellion

WantSilentListenInspiredGetPut

There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

Dennis Haysbert

QuestionsAlwaysDifferentRoles

We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.

Dennis Moore

GoodOpportunityRightPosition

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