Jean Toomer Quotes
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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My father is my inspiration.
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I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
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Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.
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It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
