Jane Hamilton Quotes
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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The rain and hail pattered against the glass; the chimneys quaked and rocked; the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more.
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Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
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The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.
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In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
