Muriel Rukeyser Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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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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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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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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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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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 always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
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That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.
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If you get a thousand calls in one day, how can you expect to be able to answer them all?
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The portraits are VERY difficult to make. The use of a skeleton creates an interesting balance between life and death.
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In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
