- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the continent's most devastating conflicts - and the literature born from the experiences of their survivors - have often gone unnoticed in the West.
- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020