Reshma Shetty Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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I have a team around me to support me.
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Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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Everybody in my family are doctors.
