Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes
All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Islam means peace.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, "That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home."
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I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
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All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
