Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
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But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.
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The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
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We should just be good humans.
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I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
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Hope has more to do with how you feel that human society is going to respond, rather than whether there are solutions.
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
