Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Max Lerner

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You cannot take shortcuts. We've shown that we can spend more on ingredients, not less, and charge a fair price.

Steve Ells

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As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.

Rob Reiner

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I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

Mason Cooley

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My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.

Michelle Paver

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Early, I wanted to fight against things: 'Oh, I feel like a background dancer here in the back of the Wyatts.' Man, looking back now, I wish we could still be doing that. I'm on TV every week, plenty of TV. You've got to look at some of the positives of the situation.

Luke Harper

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I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

Dick Gregory

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You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

Dick Wolf

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As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

Donald Evans

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I didn't really like snowboarding in the beginning. Now, I just love it. I'm in love with it.

Chloe Kim

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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Christopher Lasch

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I am a daylight atheist.

Brendan Behan

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