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Shamir Quotes

I always say I never felt 'latched' to a gender. I just kind of always felt like myself, and I never felt like I had to do certain things or be a certain way to fit into a certain mold.

Shamir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 7, 1994

Topics

Myself Gender Say Kind Way Never

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

John Green

Love Future Hope Time Writing Easy

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Robert Kennedy

Freedom Progress Possible Social

The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.

Robert Lighthizer

Faith Free Blind American True More

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

Anna Kendrick

Good Writing Trying Say Nothing Why

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Johnny Carson

Time New York New Where Something

As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.

Amy Klobuchar

Women Justice Wife Roots Seeds Deep

The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.

Stef Wertheimer

Success Time Money People Problem

I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.

Ronald Kessler

Over Next Everything Out Watergate

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

Judith Guest

I Am Me Back Mad Remembering Bring

What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.

Jason Fried

Business Writing Bad Boring Over

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Joseph Jacobs

Doubt Obscure Romance Little Belong

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

Clayton M. Christensen

Time Discipline You Person Kind