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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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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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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People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?
