Edwidge Danticat Quotes
So at least the people who have another voice and people who are interested in other things can have a place to put their information and be heard.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.
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I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
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You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
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So at least the people who have another voice and people who are interested in other things can have a place to put their information and be heard.
