Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Quotes
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
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Honesty is very sexy.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
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Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.
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When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.
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This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.
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Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.
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Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.
