Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
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As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.
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The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.
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Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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You know, I'm really not that bright.
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It was unbelievable! My family and close friends were sitting together till quite late in the night. People outside the gate just kept standing, hordes and hordes of them. It was overwhelming. I kept going out to meet them at half-hour intervals. But it just wasn't enough.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.
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All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.
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I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.
