Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

Quotes to Explore
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
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I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
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I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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If I had stopped to listen once or twiceIf I had closed my mouth and opened my eyesIf I had cooled my head and warmed my heartI'd not be on this road tonight.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.
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'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show.
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WhatsApp has over a billion customers, and they are overwhelmingly good people. But in that billion customers are terrorists and criminals... It's a huge feature of terrorist tradecraft.
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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
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But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
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The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.
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This is servitude, To serve th' unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.
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A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.
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I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.