Claudia Rankine Quotes
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified - more supremely noble than this very poem - this poem per se - this poem which is a poem and nothing more - this poem written solely for the poem's sake.
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People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
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The man that owned the company that I worked for called me into the office and said how can you be on our payroll and have your own New York Times ad! This has to stop! And I said but it can't I have orders to ship. And he said well you're fired. And that's how I started my business.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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We like existentially wacky characters who exist in existential crisis.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
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But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
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I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
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I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
