Martin Buber Quotes
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
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I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
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The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
