Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
