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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I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.
Ben Shahn
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
Larry Wilmore
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I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.
Douglas Coupland
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I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.
Emeril Lagasse
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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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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
