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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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.
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You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?
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A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.
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The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
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Every day you learn something new.
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What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?
