Muriel Rukeyser Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.
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When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.
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I love TV. I love the stability of it.
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Visitor: Monsieur Degas, were there any of Monet's pictures at the Durand-Ruel exhibition?Degas: Why, I met Monet himself there, and I said to him, 'Let me get out of here. Those reflections in the water hurt my eyes!' His pictures were always too draughty for me. If it had been any worse I should have had to turn up my coat collar.
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I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
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You're able to get into somebody's brain through song.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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In high school I was a nerd and very academic. On the weekends, instead of going out and partying, I’d close myself in my room and read Shakespeare. I hid from boys. I didn’t know what a boyfriend was, although I think I wanted one.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
