Edwidge Danticat Quotes
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers - those people ride a bike.
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I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.
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I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
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I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."
