Umar Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.
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Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
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He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.
