Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
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I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.
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Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
