Jean Toomer Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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We have always said that over the medium and long term, we will disinvest some part of our holding in our major subsidiary companies, and life insurance is our largest subsidiary company.
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In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.
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The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.
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Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
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The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.
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People mistake their limitations for high standards.
