Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I like things simple.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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If I don't do high-intensity interval training classes for an hour every morning and yoga a few days a week, I get depressed.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.
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People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'
