N. K. Jemisin Quotes
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.
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I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.
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By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
