Jenny Zhang Quotes
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
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Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
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In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.
