Jodi Picoult Quotes
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
Quotes to Explore
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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I'm everywhere; I'm just a soul that's floating around here on earth.
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The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
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I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
