Kay Ryan Quotes
I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, 'Mom, listen to this,' and she'd say, 'Junior, I know who you are.'
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
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It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
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I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.
