Jenny Zhang Quotes
How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Democracy is like a totalitarian.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.
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National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
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As paradoxical as life would have it, some of these same persons who were beaten are terrorized by the Nazis are assisting the die-hards of the Citizens' Councils in bringing about economic pressure on Negroes who pay their poll taxes and register in Humphry County.
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How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.
