Celeste Ng Quotes

If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would not be because - or not primarily because - we have similar themes or subjects or styles. Let's be honest: it would be because we are both Chinese American.

Celeste Ng

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I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.

Joe Kennedy III

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I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Jermaine Jackson

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Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

John Ortberg

LeadershipSpiritualWillNeedOut

I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops all over the country. That has allowed me to observe very predictable patterns. And one of those patterns is this inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to our racial reality.

Robin DiAngelo

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I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Russell Smith

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It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Ruth Rendell

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It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

Mary Ellen Mark

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As a Democrat from Illinois, as a member of Congress who believes in and admires President Obama, it genuinely pains me to say that the facts show that this president has done no more to solve our immigration crisis than George W. Bush.

Luis Gutierrez

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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Dominic Cooper

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The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.

Chen-Ning Yang

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Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

Clemantine Wamariya

WordsEnoughWillNeverDestruction

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Blakey

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