Anais Nin Quotes
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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I am a black woman, and of course, that's who I'm going to be playing, but I'm also biracial, and that's a different side of the experience.
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People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.
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O say what is this thing call'd Light,Which I must ne'er enjoy
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You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.
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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
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To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.
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As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.
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I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.
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Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
