Nikki Grimes Quotes
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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We can learn from everybody, man.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fuck you perfectionism. Without you, I am brilliant.
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Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.
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The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.
