Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
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I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
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As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
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I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
