Nicole Beharie Quotes
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
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I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day.
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Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
