"I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl."

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Source : "What Do China And The Banjo Have In Common?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

Abigail Washburn

#Girl Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Banjos Quotes

“I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.”
“Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real.”

Source : Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.
“It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.”
“China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.”

Source : Source: www.china.org.cn
“Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.”
“The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.”

Source : Source: www.finalcall.com
“It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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