Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
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Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.
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I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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I want someone who can respectfully challenge me. I know what I believe, so there's no point in my taking on a relationship with someone who thinks like me or laughs at what I laugh at. I enjoy being with someone who can offer me the opposite.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
