Min Jin Lee Quotes

One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.

Min Jin Lee

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I will accept comments and criticism about change.

Jimmy Haslam

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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.

Jenna Wortham

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Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

John Higgins

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It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

Jeff Gordon

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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Tori Amos

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I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

Robbie Robertson

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Sometimes when you speak what's on your mind - I'm talking everything on your mind, and - people can get a misconception of you.

Rozonda Thomas

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Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Lori Loughlin

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If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

Joseph Murray

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Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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