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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But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.
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Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
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I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
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When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.
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It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
