Suheir Hammad Quotes
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
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I want to make some happy music.
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I believe Not more in God's word than in yours; and this Not for your station's sake, nor yet your fame's, How high soe'er the wind of war have blown The splendour of your standard: but, my lord, Your face and heart and speech, being one, require Of any not base-born and servile-souled Faith: and my faith I give you.
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I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose.
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I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
