Jenny Zhang Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.
