Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories: those who truly believe there's something wrong with them, and those that are using their status as armor.
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The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.
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I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.
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Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.
