Ann Nocenti Quotes
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
