Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.
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You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.
