Jandy Nelson Quotes
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
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I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.
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I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
