Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
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I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.
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Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
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Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.
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We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
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I moved out of home when I was 15.
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You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?
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My body really reacts well to not eating a lot of wheat or dairy and staying on healthy foods.
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Very often, state utilities do not buy electricity even if they need it, as every unit purchased increases their losses.
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Competition in our health system is a powerful force of cost-containment.
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If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.
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As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.
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It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.
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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
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I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.
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I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.
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We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
