Edwidge Danticat Quotes
You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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People hate searching.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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The Party leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, wanted to show the world China's new status. And in winning the bid, the leaders could show the people how strong the government was. Plus, the leadership wanted to use the Olympics to strengthen nationalist sentiment.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.
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I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.
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You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
