Edwidge Danticat Quotes

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Edwidge Danticat

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Revolution

• Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Live
  • Want

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
  • Food
  • Cool

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Food
  • Grew

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • City
  • First
  • Academic

• Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Glory

• Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

  

  Aino Kallas
  • Day
  • Sun
  • Moon

• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Things
  • Wait
  • Left

• It's such a frustration when you see in the name of religion, in the name of God, what people are doing is something we never expected. The religion has to be Spirit-oriented, but it is only power-oriented or money-oriented. In the original scriptures, or we can say in the origin of this religion was the truth. And all these religions bloom on the same play of spirituality like beautiful flowers at different times, but people have plucked it and now they are fighting with the dead flowers.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• No one will love you more than you love your pain.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Love
  • Pain