Jason Reynolds Quotes
I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.Jason Reynolds
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
Qandeel Baloch
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp -
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta -
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Hamid Karzai
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey -
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
J. Paul Getty -
I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
Salma Hayek -
I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
Nargis Fakhri -
I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey -
I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
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Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.
Chauncey Billups -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
Vandana Shiva -
I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.
Jason Reynolds