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'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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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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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 have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
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I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
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I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
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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.
