Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.
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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
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I worked my face off.
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God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
