Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Dinaw Mengestu

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I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.

Jim Sullivan

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I play volleyball on the beach. It's a great way to work out and have fun.

Jessica Sanchez

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There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

Michael Azerrad

PeopleBackEarlyNowEightiesJust

Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

Trixie Mattel

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There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.

Robert Ben Garant

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The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

Ronald Reagan

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Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.

Rudolf Steiner

NatureBornMoreSheOwnSeem

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

Monica Crowley

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I want to save up money. This is probably long-term, but I for sure want to get into real estate and flip houses and start doing stuff like that. So I'm saving money. And, you know, being a kid at the same time. I want people to know I'm literally just a 16-year-old punk who's trying to hang out with some homies on the weekends.

Lucky Blue Smith

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The right use of food can end hunger.

Jose Andres

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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman

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We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

Douglas Leone

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