Nina Totenberg Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
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I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.
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It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
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Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
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'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
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People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'
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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
