Suheir Hammad Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker -
It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
Wendie Malick -
My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Patrick Kane -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
Dan Brown -
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten -
If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
Usher -
I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
Sally Schneider -
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
Forest Whitaker -
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
Victoria Hanley
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
Nancy Friday -
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
Vera Wang -
I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
Cara Delevingne -
The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
C. Wright Mills -
A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.
Larry Niven
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I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.
Jerry Van Dyke -
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz -
Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place, The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.
Marianne Williamson -
'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
Laura Wade -
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
Suheir Hammad