Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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Love always makes those eloquent that have it.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
