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.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
Eden Hazard -
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith -
I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis -
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.
Natalie Portman -
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.
Rafe Spall
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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.
Nate Mendel Foo Fighters -
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai -
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.
Adam Hasner -
By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Paris Hilton -
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid -
I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Ferdinand Mount -
I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
Vijay -
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.
Dan Castellaneta -
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Warren Beatty
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle -
The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
Alice Ripley -
The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.
Vince Gilligan -
The hands are churches that worship the world.
Naomi Shihab Nye