Lena Waithe Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Lots of people ask me whether they can become strong. Most certainly! You all can acquire great strength, if you have the will and proper guidance.
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And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you and watch the wind blow by.And all I wanna see is you and me go on forever like the clear blue sky.Slowly, there's only you and I.And all I wanna do is watch the wind blow by.
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I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.
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I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.
