Jami Attenberg Quotes
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Everything is designed to help you sell out.
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I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
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Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
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You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.
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We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal-an illusion-since it rests upon paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.
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Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
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The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
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I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
