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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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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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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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.
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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
