Edwidge Danticat Quotes
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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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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Lloyd George told me he did not see how we could get successfully through this war...'It is clear that that damn fool Neville Chamberlain never gave a thought to that question - whether we would win - when he declared war. I am not against war, but I am against war when we have no chance of winning.'
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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.
