Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
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Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'
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For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain...
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.
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We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
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Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.
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In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.
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Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.
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I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.
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If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been with my girlfriend for five years and it's important to me that she feels relaxed and free. I hate to see someone made to feel unsafe and helpless - particularly women as men are physically stronger.
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Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
