Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.
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We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say.
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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
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The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.
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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
