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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There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.
