Jessamyn West Quotes
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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I'm a loner.
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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
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Certainly,' said his mother, 'but first I want to know about the accident with your bicycle.' Well,' Phillip said, 'if you wanta really know. I was sitting in the basket of my bike ridin' down Mission Hill backwards singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle' and I saw the bread truck comin' and I guess I didn't turn soon enough and I ran into the Wallaces' iron fence and I caught my shoe on the pedal and my pants on a picket and I hit my eye on the handlebars and I don't know what else happened. But, boy, you should have heard the kids and that ole breadman laugh!
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I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.
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The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.
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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
