Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
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It's always about 'what have you done for me lately.' As players we see what is going on.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution, these relations stem from the circumstance that the higher organisms, in the course of millions of years, have gradually evolved from simpler ones.
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There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.
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Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility.
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
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We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
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Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
