N. K. Jemisin Quotes
'I will not beg your forgiveness,' she said. Only her voice betrayed her fear; it was not its usual strong, clear tone. 'I did what I felt was right.''Of course you did,' I said. 'It was the wise thing to do.'
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Parenting is tough.
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We used to have a tax in this country called the Estate Tax, which was very popular, because it's a tax on very, very, very rich fucks who die. And people thought, 'That's a good person to tax.' And that is a good person to tax! Because rich fucks who die should give away their money, or else they give it to their ne'er-do-well kid who becomes Uday Hussein.
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The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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'I will not beg your forgiveness,' she said. Only her voice betrayed her fear; it was not its usual strong, clear tone. 'I did what I felt was right.''Of course you did,' I said. 'It was the wise thing to do.'
