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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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.
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I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.
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The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped.
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I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.
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What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?
