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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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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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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It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
