Jane Hirshfield Quotes
In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.
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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
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In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
