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 loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
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Being an American musician means being adventurous.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
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I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.
