Sarah Kay Quotes
My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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I love '80s horror.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. After you hang up the phone, you never hear a dog say, 'You're a liar, and you are making the same self-sabotaging mistakes that have kept you single for far too long.'
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.
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Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
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I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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You never mean a single word you say.
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when you look at setting your mind on things above in terms of heaven...It means being who I was always created to be in the real light of Jesus-the person I was actually created to know.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.
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My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.
