Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

Hanya Yanagihara

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PhotographyKindAlwaysStealing

I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'

Jen Sincero

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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Robert Jackson

PoliticsReligionOpinionNationalism

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Andy Murray

NervousNeverBigFrontFeltCrowds

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

Mia Love

WorkSchoolPeopleMeGrowing Up

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Amy Tan

YourselfWritingGiftStoryGiving

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Alvin Ailey

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I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Steven Gerrard

BuildingAlwaysOutDeterminedMake

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

Tom Vilsack

FaceThinkPartyDemocraticNancy

It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

Rodney Mullen

AmazingMeWorldVictoryFirstReal

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

Russell Baker

AloneCultureWarPeopleColdWill

If you don't care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to the consumer. We're all inside the tunnel, speaking the language of business, but we need to speak the language of customers.

Mickey Drexler

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The world is an enormous injustice.

Jules Romains

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