Anzia Yezierska Quotes
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years. Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.
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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.
