Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
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There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it's different for every person who wants to practice it.
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Knowledge is the cause of human progress.
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All men of action are dreamers.
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The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!
