Jami Attenberg Quotes

I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

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• I've been married over 50 years of my life.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Life
  • Years
  • My Life

• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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  • Women
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• You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Best
  • Start
  • Tradition

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  

  Jack Reed
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  • Doing
  • Prevail

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
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• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
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  • Aging

• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
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• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
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• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• My motto is: more good times.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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  • Good Times

• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  

  Patrick White
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• I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Respect
  • Romance
  • Ghetto

• People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
  • Freedom

• A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.

  

  John C. Mather
  • Hero
  • Achievement
  • Mentor

• I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.

  

  Katheryn Winnick
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• Why brilliant fashion-designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed,sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • Why
  • History
  • Culture

• I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

  

  Jami Attenberg
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