N. K. Jemisin Quotes
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.
N. K. Jemisin
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Barbra Streisand
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
Rahul Gandhi
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
Damien Chazelle
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
Nancy A. Collins
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
P. T. Barnum
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
Ian Mckellen
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The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
Peter Abrahams
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Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citizen's imitation of noblesse oblige; that is, of pretending to be aristocrats or oligarchs, as opposed to being citizens.
John Ralston Saul
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One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
John Muir
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You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.
Van Morrison
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Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.
N. K. Jemisin
