N. K. Jemisin Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Getting married is a good time to revaluate all of your relationships. Have you had the same haircut since seventh grade? Have you found products that work for your skin? You need time to experiment.
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I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.
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I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.
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The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.
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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'
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What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?
