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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I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.
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The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.
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The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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I relax, meditate and do 80 minutes of yoga every day.
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People mistake their limitations for high standards.
