Jessamyn West Quotes
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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I love to push myself.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
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We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.
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One thing I've told people with the holidays, cooking in particular - don't make something that stresses you out. If there's something you're intimidated to make, maybe just don't make it.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost invariably, in 'Times' combat photos.
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I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
