Natasha Trethewey Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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We just here to do our job.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
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Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
