N. K. Jemisin Quotes
They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.
Quotes to Explore
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
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Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.
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I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.
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They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.
