Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.
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The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
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Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
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It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
