Danzy Senna Quotes
My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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If great managers are catalysts, speeding up the reaction between the individual's talents and the company's goals, then great leaders are alchemists. Somehow they are able to transform our fear of the unknown into confidence in the future.
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My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.
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I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
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I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.
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You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
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My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
