Jordan Pruitt Quotes
I never thought that I would have the guts to join the movement. I can’t even believe it. It’s so cheesy, but women are so much stronger together, and it just makes me proud to be a woman.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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I've always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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I never thought that I would have the guts to join the movement. I can’t even believe it. It’s so cheesy, but women are so much stronger together, and it just makes me proud to be a woman.
