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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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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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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When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.
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I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.
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Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.
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You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
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I'm bold in personality, I'm hella tall, and I'm hella black.
