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Janine di Giovanni

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DANIELLE DE NIESE Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
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JANINE DI GIOVANNI My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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JANINE DI GIOVANNI It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
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JANINE DI GIOVANNI I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little re...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
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JANINE DI GIOVANNI Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my pa...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you h...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Africa is a very dangerous place.
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JANINE DI GIOVANNI Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They w...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jes...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic....
JANINE DI GIOVANNI In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, marr...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI War means endless waiting, endless boredom. There is no electricity, so no television. You can't rea...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI The reason we think this can work from a non-proliferation standpoint is that we are seeking to prov...
CLAY SELL Our purpose in organizing this march is to support and demand guarantees for freedom of expression a...
KEM SOKHA The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different;...
DAVID RIESMAN Freedom can be forgotten in the repressive countries. To remember freedom, it will be enough to watc...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.
BRYANT MCGILL In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countri...
GEORGE ORWELL This is totally paradoxical. Denmark is one of the countries in the world where press freedom is the...
ANNABELLE ARKI This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' inte...
SAMANTHA POWER We will continue to work with law enforcement agencies in other countries to return their convicted ...
MARTIN FICKE Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to ...
MANDY PATINKIN Many Americans feel that they are losing their Freedom of Speech but what they are really seeking is...
E.R. ROCK We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the Fir...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Believe in yourself, keep a can-do approach, struggle hard and watch success follow.
MUSTAFA SAIFUDDIN I think you can really gain some professional skills. We work on interviewing skills and job seeking...
CHRIS TURNER When countries break-up they call it freedom and independence, when countries unite, they call it an...
APURVA GAGLANI Janine Hathaway offered to be my guardian, " said Lissa suddenly.
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RICHELLE MEAD It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the...
BULENT ECEVIT Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.
ISAAC ASIMOV Bravery breaks barriers! You were not born to be mediocre! Put on courage and conquer! Don’t forge...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I've worked in restaurants my whole life. It's hard work, but I've always loved it. I don't know if ...
BETH KEATING I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon ...
TA-NEHISI COATES The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that ...
NATAN SHARANSKY You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...
KENNETH GRAHAME I think it's motivation to show these younger guys that hard work pays off, to show that what we've ...
ALANDO TUCKER I see in their eyes. I look around and they need hope and they need opportunity. They need to unders...
JOE COOK The idea of pushing countries around isn't valid, it doesn't work. The U.S. has to produce products ...
CHARLES MARTIN Life. It works better if your already smart.
GREAT APE Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerit...
LOU JIWEI It could become very expensive for Sweden to take responsibility in this way for other countries whi...
GORAN PERSSON Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in ...
TADANOBU ASANO In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our asset...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, b...
NELSON MANDELA In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally...
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DENNIS MERRELL We are in the process of putting together a team of experts well versed in the necessary required ar...
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TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
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1. Stop stressing
2. Stop worrying
3. Give re...
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ROY WADIA I can confirm that Mladic is in Serbia. But Karadzic, I don't know where he is.
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CHAIM POTOK There are other countries in Europe,
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Freedom seeking is the path to coming alive again.
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LI PENG Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
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DEJAN DELIC Other countries don't compromise their principles for other people. We should not compromise.
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MILORAD VUCELIC I am a work in progress, truly a unique yet unfinished masterpiece
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ELIZABETH EULBERG Anger can be subdued only by forbearance and cruelty can be overcome only by nonviolence.
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JANINE JANSEN After the concert, people said it was almost too intimate to watch us play.
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JANINE DIGIOACCHINO The best thing patients can do is be honest with what they are taking.
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GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
GIOVANNI RUFFINI One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One of...
GIOVANNI FALCONE White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
NIKKI GIOVANNI By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
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NIKKI GIOVANNI it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat
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NIKKI GIOVANNI I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy,...
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GIOVANNI RIBISI Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat., Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous fa...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO I feel I've lost every part of me...there's nothing left but the parts I've given to you. I need you...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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GIOVANNI AGNELLI In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped u...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.
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GIOVANNI AGNELLI You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
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GIOVANNI CARRARA You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
NIKKI GIOVANNI Black love is black wealth
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NIKKI GIOVANNI There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
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NIKKI GIOVANNI It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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GIOVANNI COLLAZO When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a ...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Don't let others change your ways; only better them.
GIOVANNI JOUBERT I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving �...
GIOVANNI PAPINI You that have said and done consciously or unconsciously good and bad things that you have to people...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO You are who you are. people can either take it, or leave it. Never should you help people in any way...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI We are filling the planes-and with high load factors-but there is a lot to do before the industry's ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
NIKKI GIOVANNI I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what t...
NIKKI GIOVANNI If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second...
NIKKI GIOVANNI When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can sk...
NIKKI GIOVANNI A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a...
NIKKI GIOVANNI He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
GIOVANNI FALCONE La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI We love because it's the only true adventure
NIKKI GIOVANNI Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
NIKKI GIOVANNI There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
NIKKI GIOVANNI It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love
GIOVANNI PAPINI He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI Există ceva dincolo de reprezentare? Cunoașterea e o fereastră demnă de încredere spre real, sa...
GIOVANNI PAPINI Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowin...
GIOVANNI RIBISI The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That ma...
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