Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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I am always cautious.
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People ask me what my favorite episode of Full House is; it was the last one!
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Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
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25 percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. 34 percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.
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When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
