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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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
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You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.
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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.
