Djuna Barnes Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money.
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It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.
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Creosote has a pretty technological smell.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
