Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.
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We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
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I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.
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It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.
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I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.
