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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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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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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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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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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I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
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You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.
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I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.
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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.
