Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
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In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
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People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
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I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
