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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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.
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If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.
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I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
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Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.
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I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
