N. K. Jemisin Quotes

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

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• Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

  

  Mackenzie King
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• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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• Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

  

  Ian Botham
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• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
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• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

  

  Parker Posey
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• In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

  

  Jack Osbourne
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• I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.

  

  Christian Bale
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• If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• No one gets to their heaven without a fight - Armor and Sword (2007)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
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• I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

  

  Gloria Gaynor
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• We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

  

  Carmen Cusack
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• If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
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