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.
Sam Kean
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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.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Madeleine L'Engle
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
Lady Gaga
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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.
Iain Sinclair
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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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.
Yahya Jammeh
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
Cameron Diaz
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
Samantha Mathis
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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.
Fidel Castro
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
Said Musa
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Vicente Fox
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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.
U Thant
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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.
Viktor E. Frankl
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
Aristotle
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.
Alice Childress
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The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.
E. J. Dionne
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
Barack Obama
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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?
Naomi Shihab Nye