Miriam Toews Quotes
It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.
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Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
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How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.
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Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
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Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.
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I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.
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I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
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Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.
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It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
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It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.
