Maaza Mengiste Quotes
A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
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My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.
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You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.
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I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified.
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Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.
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A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
