Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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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.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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If they don't like you, they don't renew. Renewal is everything.
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
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Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
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We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.
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Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
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When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
