Aja Naomi King Quotes
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.
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There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
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It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
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The Dionysian is no picnic.
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The belief that men don’t need help is part of the problem.
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Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.
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Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.
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I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'
