Jesmyn Ward Quotes
As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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He knew, better than the cynic, that if you look out over the arc of history, human beings should be filled not with fear but with hope.
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But coercion never produces harmony. How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will? Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion. This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.
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It seems to me I've heard that song before.It's from an old familiar score.I know it well, that melody.
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«What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
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You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.
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If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
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Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.
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We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.
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There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.
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As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.
