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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
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There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.
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The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
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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.
