Edwidge Danticat Quotes
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
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I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
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I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.
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Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
