Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
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Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
