Jessamyn West Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
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Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.
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Teaching is the royal road to learning.
