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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I AM EVERYWHERE
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I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
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Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
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An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
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I'm from the Midwest. We like to know who our neighbors are.
