Afia Nathaniel Quotes
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I work very hard at my game.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.
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The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
