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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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.
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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.
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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.
