Janine di Giovanni Quotes
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper
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Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as governing principle.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
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I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.
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It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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The kinds of things I want don't cost money.
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I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
