Taiye Selasi Quotes

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Taiye Selasi

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I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

Jeannette Walls

PeopleWorldViewKindOutChanged

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

Steve Carell

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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Shimon Peres

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I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

Mike Fitzpatrick

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I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.

Julia Quinn

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I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

Lisa Murkowski

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

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I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

Jon Fishman

LifeYouGoKnowListenPoint

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Johnny Depp

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When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Bobby Flay

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In the 1970s, as historians became enchanted with microhistories, economists were expanding the reach of their discipline. Nations, states and cities began to plan for the future by consulting with economists whose prognostications were shaped by investment cycles rather than historical ones.

Annalee Newitz

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It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

William Shatner

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