Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.
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When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
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One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?
