Jeannette Walls Quotes
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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Earth is a stunningly lovely planet for so many reasons. Among these is the wondrous presence of curious, artful, inventive humanity.
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
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This kind of thinking is taking a long view, in which one must also count the imponderables, such as the effort of prolonged depression upon restless social forces; the inevitable necessity for National Socialism to move very far to the Left, the possible revolt of the people everywhere against dawdling tactics of their leaders.
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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
