Maaza Mengiste Quotes
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
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Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.
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Exeat aulaqui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestasnon coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.
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Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the bluesAnd you know it don't come easy.
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The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.
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I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.
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But I came from a conservative Republican background.
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Adding chlorella and chlorophyll to your smoothie gives you the benefits of leafy greens in their most raw form.
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I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.
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It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
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How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.
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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
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We must not be anything other than what we are.
