Ernest Gaines Quotes
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I'm trying my best.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
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I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.
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Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.
