Jade Puget Quotes
I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.
Quotes to Explore
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair, transparent and efficient. I look forward to leading this exemplary team as we grow this global business.
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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Preposterous to say that to punish a certain act was not an abridgement of the liberty of doing that act.
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Only ignorance excuses stupidity
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.
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The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
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I stopped dying the moment I started writing
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
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I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.
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I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.
