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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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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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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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.
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I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
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Everybody looks at their poop.
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I feel like I always learn from somebody who can do something better than I can.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
