Tom Perrotta Quotes

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Tom Perrotta

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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

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I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

Jenji Kohan

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I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

Ann Leckie

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Why can't I make up my own characters and paint the people I want to see in the world? I'm depicting the many people who existed in history but whose presence was never documented.

Amy Sherald

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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

Stacey D'Erasmo

LifeSomeoneYouUnderstandOutHer

With guitar, I'd always mixed more sounds that occur in hip-hop, or occur on Crystal Method records, or occur at the zoo - so I've never been sort of tethered or have limited myself to the traditional rock n' roll vocabulary.

Tom Morello

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Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.

Robert Anthony

LiveDayYouEarthWillRight

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

Joseph Pulitzer

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My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Deepika Padukone

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In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

Dean Ornish

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Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

Annie Jacobsen

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