Alice Walker Quotes
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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'Cause maybe you're loveable.Maybe you're my snowflake.And your eyes turn from green to gray.And in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.And you should never cut your hair,'Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.And you will never knowJust how beautiful you are to me.But maybe I'm just in loveWhen you wake me up.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person - which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.
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When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.
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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.
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Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
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I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
Colson Whitehead -
You're all I want! You're all I have! GO AWAY! .
