Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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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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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
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Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.
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And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.
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I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
