Nora Lum (Awkwafina) Quotes
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
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Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
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I like Lady Gaga because I like that she pushes the envelope.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
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You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
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Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid, or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in? Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger –- we were strangers once, too.
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
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I studied my craft at the same place as Nicki Minaj.
