Rachel Kushner Quotes
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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I didn't have a father figure in the house.
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If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
