Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Jamaica Kincaid
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
Washed Out
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
Rakul Preet Singh
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
Danica McKellar
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
Nargis Fakhri
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
Adam Hamilton
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
Tammy Baldwin
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
Marc Andreesen
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
Doris Lessing
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My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham
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A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!
Donny Osmond
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'Weasels - and stoats - and foxes - and so on. They're all right in a way - I'm very good friends with them - pass the time of day when we meet, and all that - but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then - well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.'
Kenneth Grahame
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I just wanted to live in books and in movies.
Janet Fitch
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Jamaica Kincaid
