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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Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
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Americans are really lovely people - friendly, kind and willing to help you out.
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I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only difference is the scale. People seem to think my problems are larger than life, but they're not larger than my life.
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Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.
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Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
