Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
