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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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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Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.
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I get a bit quick-tempered sometimes.
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Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
