Jesmyn Ward Quotes
Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The world is too violent right now.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.
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Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.
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Working with women survivors of war has taught me that we need to listen to women's perspectives on war in order to understand how to effectively rebuild a country, a community and a family.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.
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Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.
