Edwidge Danticat Quotes
I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.
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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
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Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.
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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
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I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
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I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
