Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
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I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
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I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.
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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
