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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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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God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
