John Edgar Wideman Quotes
I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
John Edgar Wideman
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
Maeve Binchy
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
Ferid Murad
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
Taron Egerton
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
Yuna
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
Karen DeCrow
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September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.
Keanu Reeves
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For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.
Angela Davis
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People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
Fortune Feimster
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I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.
John Edgar Wideman
