Danzy Senna Quotes
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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This world's a bubble.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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Of course, some people call me one of the most well-networked people in the world, but I am a very unsocial person - I never go to a cocktail party; I am never seen at a charity event. I have one exception: I'm a member of the board for one of the big European music festivals, so I participate, with pleasure, in concerts.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.
