Hamza Yusuf Quotes

The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

Hamza Yusuf

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LoveBookBetterKnowWantUp

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

Anna Camp

WomenWomanBondThinkSeeingSee

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

Michael Caine

PeopleMeVillainAmericanLookUp

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Sophocles

ManStateBelongs

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

ArchitectureChallengesOpportunities

Music is one of those businesses in which, if you're talented and hustle hard enough, you can make it - specifically as an entrepreneur. If you look as far back as Berry Gordy, Russell Simmons, Andre Harrell, L.A. Reid, and Sean 'Diddy' Combs, there's a whole lineage of successful black entrepreneurs who have built their own companies from scratch.

Troy Carter

MusicBlackEnoughYouHustleLook

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

Roger Moore

FatherTeacherGreatTimeMoneyMe

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Bruce Davison

WorldThinkPoliticalToleranceSay

I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

Philip Schultz

RelationshipPowerGreatPeopleYou

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

Paul Wolfowitz

SupportPeopleEndingThinkSayWhy

To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

Two Chainz

LifeChildMeThinkParentGhetto

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

Todd Barry

StrangeOpeningUpSeemsAgain

In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything. I vaguely remember 'Desire' coming out. I definitely remember 'Street Legal' and 'Slow Train Coming.' The first time I saw Dylan was on that tour: '79 in L.A.

Todd Haynes

LoveMusicTimeSchoolHigh School

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