Riaad Moosa Quotes

#1. Do not imprison your mind with negative thoughts

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

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#3. Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.

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#4. What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.

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#5. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up. It is always onward and upward

Philippa Gregory

#6. My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.

Wissam Al Mana

#7. When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.

Arthur Golden

#8. Softly the two names lingered on the air, died away more slowly than other words, other names, slower than music in the mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Some are just businessmen.

Chris Bohjalian

#10. When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

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#11. I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

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#12. I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.

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#13. I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

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#14. The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.

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#15. I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

Bill Bryson

#16. Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.

Sidney Crosby

#17. Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!

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#18. I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

Lauren Worsham

#19. Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.

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