Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily - I hope I have understood.' Emily's poems are sometimes difficult, often abstract, on occasion flippant, but her mind is inside them.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 10, 1984

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There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

Andrew Cuomo

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I don't want to do anything that puts my team members, my camera people or producers, in danger, so it's an ongoing dialogue on all the stories that we do.

Anderson Cooper

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I've seen most of the major, important shows, but I watch them all at once, like movies, so my TV relationships are still with shows like 'Law And Order: SVU,' 'Shark Tank,' and HGTV.

John Mulaney

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For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.

Angus Young

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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

Stephen Hawking

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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

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You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

Jonathan Krisel

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If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

Jonny Lee Miller

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I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

Jordan Rodgers

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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

William Petty

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Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Rick Perlstein

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