Natasha Trethewey Quotes
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

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The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.