Jesmyn Ward Quotes
I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
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My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.
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Not every Muslim is out to get us.
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I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
