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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I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.
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The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.
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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.
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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.
