Natasha Trethewey Quotes
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
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There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.
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I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
