Jessamyn West Quotes
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'
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An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
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Never, ever forget history.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
