Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.
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Thy friendship makes us fresh.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
