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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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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Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.
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Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
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We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.
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I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
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Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
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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.
