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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. ↗

— Amy Tan

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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗

— Randall Terry

#comes #commandments #concept #french #french revolution

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. ↗

— Jessica Tandy

#always #dead #dinner #either #having

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#commonplace #ideal #people #present #quite

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#language #look #much #power #realize

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#attached #great #ice #large #lump

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#color #comprehend #could #friendly #heard

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#guy #i #ill #manager #movie

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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