Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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I'm not one of these Disney haters. I'm really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.
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Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight
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We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
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nobody gets a free ride. And nobody should get a free ride.
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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
