Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (NoViolet Bulawayo) Quotes
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.
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At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
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We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
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Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
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Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.
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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
