Floor Jansen Quotes
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Naomi Klein
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
Samaire Armstrong
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
Najib Mikati
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
Os Guinness
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For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.
Lucy Dacus
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I had a slight hope the phrase 'spark joy' might become popular, as it was the keyword that I wanted to put forward in the first place.
Marie Kondo
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People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
James Bovard
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'Connor
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My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.
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