Anohni Quotes
When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
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I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
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My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.
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I don't just listen to rap.
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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
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When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
