Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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Vegas is kind of crazy because there's so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.
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I do think that all of us think in poems.
