Anzia Yezierska Quotes
I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.
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Time stays, we go.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
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All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.
