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 was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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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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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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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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One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.
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The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
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A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.
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I'm a very social person, and I like being in different kinds of environments.
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Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
Colson Whitehead -
The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
