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 love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.
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We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.
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I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
