Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
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Everybody's human. You are only on this planet for a little bit of time.
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My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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The hands are churches that worship the world.
