Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
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Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that's what I'm going to do.
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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.
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For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
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I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!
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I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
