Marianne Jean-Baptiste Quotes
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
Karen Bender
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
Brown Campbell
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
I. F. Stone
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
Iman
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
Frances McDormand
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Karin Slaughter
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
Ted Rall
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It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
Ian Hacking
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
Taylor Wilson
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
Hamza Yusuf
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Tacitus
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
Lady Gregory
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
W. Bruce Cameron
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot
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The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.
Uday Kotak
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Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
Orson Scott Card
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I’m very lucky. I have terrific parents, but some kids have a really rotten time growing up and we should do all that we can to make their lives happier and more secure.
Holly Johnson
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
