Alexis Wright Quotes

The expectation was I would get married and become a mother and settle down. We didn't have any role models. We saw teachers and doctors and nurses, but I'm not a teacher, and there was no possibility of being a doctor or a nurse. I had to work and find my own way.

Alexis Wright

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We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Joe Slovo

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Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

John Lydon

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Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Anna Seward

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The giving of the Quran is in Islam what the incarnation of Christ is to Christianity. If this is so, then Quran-burning is parallel to Christ-crucifying.

John Piper

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I was playing acoustic bossa nova music in a trio, and Tucker was the DJ that night. He came early and saw what we were doing and ended up remixing one of my songs on the spot... We have been working together ever since!

Sophie Hawley-Weld

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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

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As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

Troy Garity

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Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Ronald Reagan

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Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Mary Quant

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I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.

Molly Ivins

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There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.

Miranda July

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Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Jordan Peterson

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