N. K. Jemisin Quotes
But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.
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You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.
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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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When it's my last year, I'll probably let people know when that last pitch is thrown and say thanks and walk away.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
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Hope opens doors where despair closes them.
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Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
