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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Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.
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The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
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Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.
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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.
