Edwidge Danticat Quotes
On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
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I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
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I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.
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There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
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I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred. It feels unearthly; it makes me feel a way that talking to somebody doesn't make me feel, it's something you can't even wrap your head around. It's not abstract, you can't even grasp it - that's what music is to me.
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On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.
