Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
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When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the trees and just take a moment.
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Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
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On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
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As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
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The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
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We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
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Forget the haters, just get ya money, just get ya weight up.
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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
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I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
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Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who planned them all in love for us, and giving Him the response of love and gratitude?
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I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.
