Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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I hardly see myself as a futurist.
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?
