Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
