"So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of "Black-ish" and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice."

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Yara Shahidi

#Character Quotes #Activist Quotes #Philanthropist Quotes

“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”

Source : "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
“The thunder of love is unassailable.”
“If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover.”

Source : Interview with Wee Kiat, fabodylous.com. 2012.
“You keep learning all the time.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.”
“Iâ€™m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.”
“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”

Source : Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.174, Vintage
“I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

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