Waris Dirie Quotes
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.
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Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?
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I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just... read a book.
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I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
