WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS: Stories, by Helen Oyeyemi.
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours , by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead) .
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Extract from WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURS by Helen Oyeyemi.
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NPR declared her new novel What is Not Yours is Not Yours "flawless,"
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Oyeyemi began work on What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, she has
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This month, Mashable's social book club MashReads is reading What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours.
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That sentence doesn't appear in What is Not Yours is Not Yours either, though you could say that it
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But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own.
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But get used to me -- black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own.
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But get used to me — black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own.
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Excerpted from What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi by arrangement with the Wylie Agency and Riverhead Books.
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is a singularly well-made book, with stories that feel simultaneously new and familiar, like half-forgotten fairy tales.
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, which comes out in paperback March 7, is her first collection of short stories, and it is astonishingly beautiful.
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Mistrust the one who eats foods different from yours, speaks and writes differently, sings songs that are not yours and — most crucially, who prays to a god not yours.
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" An Aymaran villager yelled back: "This is not yours!
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Pray for your kids even if they're not yours .
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If you choose to open What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, you'll find yourself reading stories so precisely and exquisitely written, so elegant and shiver-inducing, that they're worth picking locks for.
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It's her body, not yours, so why do you care?
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Relationships are bound to disintegrate — but not yours, of course!
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And if it's not yours yet, well, then, start listening.
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Mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect.
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Lender's title insurance only protects the lender's investment, not yours.
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WHAT IS NOT YOURS IS NOT YOURSStoriesBy Helen Oyeyemi325 pp.
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"Mexico is not yours to play with, show some respect."
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They're not yours, but you start to really feel them.
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It's our rules, not yours, buddy ... be clear on that.
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Her 2016 short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, featured puppets with their strings slashed like a cut throat and a marshland full of drowned corpses that became its own city.
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Giving away money — particularly when it's not yours — can be fun.
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The contents of your shadow profiles are not yours to see.
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You didn't fail, she didn't beat you, it's just not yours.
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You inherit them for a while, but they are not yours.
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You were holding those checks to do his will, not yours.
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You made it about you and it's my story, not yours.
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He is his own human being, not yours and not ours.
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Described as a "magical exploration of keys, puppets and storytelling", What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a book of short stories from British author Helen Oyeyemi, is a masterful collection from a uniquely talented author.
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Past winners have included Matthew Desmond's deep dive into eviction practices in the U.S. Evicted and Helen Oyeyemi's fable-inspired short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (which was also a MashReads favorite).
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I will only say that What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is a singularly beautiful collection of stories, filled with ideas and images that will linger in your mind for a long time to come.
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One, I have never met you, and two, I am not yours.
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In your own body which is mostly water and mostly not yours.
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They keep you alive and fed for their own purposes, not yours.
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Getting older means understanding that your job is not yours to control.
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This article that I did pull up, was my words, not yours.
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If someone doesn't accept your best, then that's their issue, not yours.
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They push you into investments that are in their best interest — not yours.
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They're not yours to keep, but you can wear them during your session.
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" He angrily replied to one European journalist: "The Amazon is ours, not yours.
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They're mine, not yours, so that's fine, you don't have to like them.
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This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours.
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"She's not yours," Lydia says, confirming longtime fan speculation on the singer's paternity.
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" And Marlene said, "No, it's not yours, it's Emily's relationship [that's the problem].
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Here's one more thing that's their job and definitely not yours: managing weirdness.
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The nine intricate, dark fairy tales that make up Helen Oyeyemi's "What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours" contain fantastical situations (a foundling and the gift of an enormous library; a soulful puppet narrator named Gepetta) all linked through image.
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Mr. Shkreli said, "I intend to follow the advice of my counsel, not yours."
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It can be a desire to get what's yours, or get what's not yours.
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"I intend to follow the advice of my counsel, not yours," Shkreli told Rep.
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After that, you can see everything on the computer even if it's not yours.
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It's the applicant's fault, not yours, that this information may lose him the job.
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"We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," Mr. Saleh said to Gen.
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Meanwhile you're listening to a workout playlist that's probably not yours, or Sartre's, either.
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But the terrible thing is that the evidence is on their side, not yours.
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It's also recommended that you avoid plugging in anything into your computer that's not yours.
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If you see them on your friend's phone but not yours, you have your answer.
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"My hands are small, I know / But they're not yours / They are my own" pic.twitter.
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The world that Anna Sperber — performer and choreographer — inhabits onstage is not yours or mine.
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But the ultimate responsibility is not yours, unless forced on you by tragedy or circumstance.
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And they would keep telling me, 'Oh, it belongs to us now, it's not yours.
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But if you're not in the group, the word is definitely not yours to use.
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Where I'm from, we call it a theft if you take something that's not yours.
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And then before you know it your day is not yours anymore, it's someone else's.
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Then, inspired by Their Eyes Were Watching God and Black History Month, we discuss our favorite books by black authors including Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi.
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And it's their choice – not mine, not yours, not society's – to decide whether to come forward.
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It's clear who thinks Biden is on their side, and that side is probably not yours.
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A few messages, or lines, pass by with everyone addressing the other issue, but not yours.
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"They want borders in their lives but not yours and not the American people's," Sessions continued.
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You have a disappointing result, and it's the world's fault, not yours, because you've done everything.
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This year's show was hosted by comedian, actor and producer Aasif Mandvi and honored a wide range of literature, from Evicted, Matthew Desmond's acclaimed investigation of poverty in America, to What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a fable-inspired short story collection by Helen Oyeyemi.
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Sure, you'll appear on friends' iPhones in that hideous green color, but that's their problem, not yours.
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" If they're not yours, he said, "then step off that path" and "don't follow someone else's dreams.
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It's hard to fight a battle that is not yours with the same energy of your own.
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How you act matters a lot, but ultimately it's your sibling's relationship, not yours, Dr. McHale says.
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"We start teaching from kindergarten, if it's wet and not yours, don't touch it," Dr. Jackson said.
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If your S.O. is horny and you're not, it's their responsibility to take care of themselves, not yours.
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"We're still running on an outdated industry calendar, not yours," Minkoff wrote in a blog post in January.
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Fine lines, maybe, but all of it is taking what's not yours, something companies consider a serious offense.
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If clarifying the nature of your loving relationship causes people "embarrassment or shock," that's their problem, not yours.
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The problems others have about you are theirs and not yours, and consequence of their own ignorance and fears.
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They can force you to use a name that's not yours, but only for a limited amount of time.
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As numerous economists (if not yours) have observed, the history and prognosis of explicit wealth taxes is not sanguine.
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In a masterful display of storytelling, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours uses keys as a starting point to explore the deeper questions of why we hide the things we lock away, who has the power to open the things we keep sheltered, and what happens when those things are unleashed.
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" Carter's observation struck me while I was reading Helen Oyeyemi's transcendent first collection of stories, "What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours," where the cabinet of wonders includes Little Red Riding Hood reborn, with an unlikely entity assuming the role of the girl in red, in "Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day Goose.
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While "What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours" is linked loosely by keys (and also by character — a figure in the wings of one story might take center stage in another, a structure that recalls Yoko Ogawa's devastating "Revenge"), the collection is even more urgently united by the author's playful, inventive sensibility.
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Even going to Washington was Susan Zirinsky's idea, not yours, but I think it will make everything better and different.
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Just be sure that whatever they do with the card is reflected in their credit score, not yours, Glassman said.
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Your personal space, your personal social media, is not yours; you are on the clock 100 percent of the time.
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This is NOT yours to lose, no matter how forceful, compelling or take-your-seat at the table you've been.
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" The mother of three said she was continuing their contentious divorce for "the principal of [Meyer] stealing something that's not yours.
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Bolsonaro has said that the "Amazon is ours, not yours," and insisted it should not be a concern to non-Brazilians.
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"It should be the state's burden to register voters - not yours," said state Senate President Harriette Chandler (D) in a statement.
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The price of admission to a dear colleague's retirement party at an upscale establishment is beyond her means, though not yours.
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This world is not yours for the taking—it's bigger than you as a player and utterly indifferent toward your presence.
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That's especially troubling when the companies are also forcing this action to take place at a time of their choosing, not yours.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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And it's not about having to explain it or not wanting to explain it — I just felt like it's mine, not yours.
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He wants a strong woman to worship but in the end, this connection will likely be about his life lessons... not yours.
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Maybe I was wrong, but this was my dream, not yours, and not Watson's (though I was glad to have his steerage).
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"Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol," Heschel writes.
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"I love Dublin, I love Ireland, but it's that thing of constantly being told over and over again that it's not yours."
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Yes, I know ads pay part of my salary (not yours, since I think you've elected to get paid in burritos, right?).
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This is why representation matters in so many ways — knowing that your experience is not yours alone can be incredibly liberating and validating.
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Put another way: The moment a device enters your general proximity, even if it's not yours, your cognitive performance starts to decline. Yep.
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They might also need to make a million substitutions to their entrée—but that should be the server's problem, not yours, Fishman says.
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It has helped me love myself more and know that if people can't really understand who you are, that's their problem, not yours.
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It would be easy for you, and other chief executives, to argue that controlling the gun violence epidemic is Washington's responsibility, not yours.
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It would be easy for you, and other chief executives, to argue that controlling the gun violence epidemic is Washington's responsibility, not yours.
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Casper's memory foam also has minimal motion transfer, so if you're sleeping with someone who can't stay still, it'll be their problem — not yours.
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"Whether it's a Bernie or Hillary or a Trump sign, you might disagree with whatever the politics are, but it's not yours," Phillip said.
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When the amount is small, though, the store isn't entitled to your inconveniencing yourself, especially given that it was the store's fault, not yours.
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Because I pass along things I hear from people I think are smart, but— BECKY QUICK: I'm actually asking for Bill's opinion, not yours.
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By cell count, humans are approximately 2000 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all.
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"Gay culture is being a teenager when you're 30 because your teenage years were not yours to live," Twitter user @introvertgay posted on September 1.
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The novel and the movie communicated to everyone who loved their family the anguish of enslavement, of knowing your children were not yours at all.
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"At the end of the day, just because it's out there and it's not yours, that doesn't mean you're supposed to take it," Johnson said.
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For good reason — their products help to make your grandmother's famous chocolate chip cookies as well as your newfangled (her words, not yours) quinoa cacao bites.
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To celebrate International Women's Day, here is a story from Helen Oyeyemi's story collection What Is Not Your Is Not Yours, out today from Riverhead Books.
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All you have to do is walk out of your house in Englewood and look at the beautiful gleaming downtown skyline and realize what's not yours.
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I mean, it's always a strange feeling to release it 'cause then it's not yours anymore; it's for other people [laughs] to enjoy or not enjoy.
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But if you notice your boss asks your colleagues about their weekends, kids, or new pets, but not yours, then that's a bad sign, Kerr said.
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You think that your dog is awesome — even if it bites people every once in a while — and that other dogs are stupid, since they're not yours.
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"African-American community culture has already been whitewashed, so to not have anything at all that's not yours, I don't want to think about it," she said.
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People in border communities know that none of our families made it to where we are on our own — not mine, not yours, and not President Trump's.
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It is hard to be at the hospital, to live in a room that's not yours and have people coming to check your blood pressure all the time.
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"You have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil's, not yours," Bolsonaro told reporters last month when addressing international scrutiny of his environmental policies, according to The Guardian.
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And if I get distracted wondering whether that yellow stain around your mouth is whiskers or just the lingering impression of a gloryhole, that's my problem, not yours.
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" The cookbook author and model also told her followers, "No guys no please do not make this trend, for it is my fight with #PresidentP—-AssBitch, not yours!!!!!!
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Have you seen the approval rating of the media lately and the ratings on shows and networks -- not yours, Sean, by the way congratulations on your incredible ratings.
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First up she surprised fans at McDonalds' #365Black booth inside the convention center where she let the crowd in on a little inside information: what's mine is not yours.
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"We worked very well as a team and with respect and with no ego in the way because once an idea's out there, it's not yours anymore," Mongrain says.
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" She added, "They got to see very early, life is not a game and all of this here it's not yours, me and daddy worked for all of this.
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Unless they give you the OK, regardless of how close you are, it is their place, not yours, to announce to the world they are about to have a baby.
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This week on the MashReads Podcast, Helen Oyeyemi joins us in the studio to chat about What Is Not Your Is Not Yours (our MashReads book club selection for April).
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Can you afford to place your organizations at competitive risk if you don't manage these impacts and governments pass regulations that force you to, on their timetables and not yours?
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When Steyer was not defending himself against Biden, or being ignored by Sanders ("we're talking about my plan, not yours"), he was largely agreeing with points made by other candidates.
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Not yours in particular, but ... Well, so I raised concerns, saying that his rhetoric was not just divisive, which I think people had focused on, but it was getting really dangerous.
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I think it is generally good to be following people who have experiences that are not yours to learn more about how people who aren't like you live in the world.
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It's not yours unless you've taken the time to actually learn it and load it into your brain, where you can understand it and think about it and manipulate it symbolically.
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" The protesters had even set up various laser shows in Victory Square, one of which projected words on to government buildings stating, amongst other things, "Resign" and "Dragnea, Romania is not yours.
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Hilal, another member, describes the experience of growing up Palestinian in Israel as "schizophrenic" – "you're growing up somewhere, deep inside its culture, but you slowly start to realise it's not yours", he explains.
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"I intend to follow the advice of my counsel, not yours," said Shkreli after South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy suggested he could answer questions that were unrelated to pending fraud charges against him.
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According to a Marshall Project survey of all 50 states' laws, you can get charged and convicted as a violent criminal in more than a dozen states if you enter a dwelling that's not yours.
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When we have complained about it to management and said where is our security here, we don't feel safe anymore, their comment is: 'Our security guards that drive around are to watch our property, not yours.
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But Shkreli continued to refused to answer, saying with an edge, "I intend to follow the advice of my counsel and not yours," as he smirked and as Brafman sat behind him in the hearing room.
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Remember when you were not a child and not yet an adult and your parents didn't understand you and sexual intimacy was real but it was something that happened in the next town over, not yours?
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"As a humble citizen, I asked, where is my money actually, not yours, where is my money, because I am paying you to do this," Gilbert explained to VICE News as he stood near the bridge.
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It&aposs an identity marker in a way that few bodily components are — think, for example, about how unsettling it is to find a strand that&aposs not yours in a place you&aposre not expecting.
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It completely defines and exposes all these realities about relationships, because even in modern pop we would typically have a song of longing to a person who's not yours, or a love song between two people that's monogamous.
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You are alone with someone's thoughts (but not yours) as a soothing robotic voice recites recondite events past and future, including something about an entity called Corp Corp gaining control of Mars, and the activities of a certain Lieutenant Swimm.
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And it's still teaching users how to snatch their Gmail contacts' email addresses while only letting you export the names of your friends — unless they opt-in through an obscure setting, because it considers contact info they've shared as their data, not yours.
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We need you to be on the look out for how you can use your privilege for our benefit and not yours, and how to actively respond to, argue with, and call out transphobia in your everyday conversations and the national news.
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"We have sort of checked out of parenting in the digital domain and had them do their own thing both because we felt completely inept next to them, but also because they said, 'this is my space, not yours,'" Dr. Rich said.
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My favorite hypothesis involves women in the 1800s using melted beeswax, lavishly, as foundation — if someone looked too close, that is to say if someone tried to see your actual face, you could tell them to mind their own beeswax, not yours.
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It's easy for you to empathize with what other people are thinking and feeling, but it's important that you consistently practice setting appropriate boundaries so you're not trying to take on responsibilities that are not yours (or at least not solely yours) to carry.
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This is numerous things: an instance of Nest apparently being a slow-motion flaming trainwreck; This is a great reminder that the "Internet of Things" is actually the "Internet of Someone Else's Things": if you don't have root on a device in your home, then it is not yours.
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"This is my future not yours, that’s why I care ... We’re striking today on our school holiday, which shows that we’re willing to take time off our holiday to protest because it’s such an important cause," Aida Freij, 13, told the Guardian.
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To all the policy makers who enforce the 14th Amendment: think of a time you may have taken something that's not yours, maybe hit a joint at a party, or drove home after a few drinks; the difference between you and some felons is they got caught and you didn't.
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Even if you feel for the parent and believe her kids should not be taken away, that is not the end of the story, because the final decision to ask in court for the removal of children is not yours to make; your supervisor, or your supervisor's manager, will make it.
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While using someone else's password to access a system or computer that it's not yours, or to which you have no authorization to access, is clearly a crime under the much-maligned anti-hacking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, doing it by guessing a password should not be defined as hacking.
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" She added: "I've marched till my feet bled for the right of equal love in the gay community, and you're just gonna step in because it looks cool for you and now tell everybody that you're a lesbian when you've never even seen another puss that's not yours so you can get attention?
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It wouldn't keep me from the sort of white lies that keep society lubricated: I'm going to turn in early, but have fun at the party, we say, even if what we really mean is, I need company but not yours, or There's a walk I'd like to take alone, a book I'd rather read.
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But these memories are not yours: they belong to artist Yto Barrada, whose scenes tell a subtle story of sociality in post-Colonial Morocco; and to filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, who captures the zeitgeist of Los Angeles at the time of the race riots; and to artist Larry Sultan, whose movie stills detail daily life in 1960s suburban America.
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My daughter loves minnie mouse ," West, 38, wrote on Twitter, continuing, "Can you please bring the minnie mouse head not yours she specifically likes minnie mouse " Referencing the Chicago native's years old spat with Taylor Swift, Zimmerman replied with, "Imma let you finish But you should probably be saving the money for a 4th grade education.
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In one about American attempts to spread democracy, it sings: Democracy, hypocrisy, false liarTrying to use invisible bullets to get money, huhThe world is not yours, now you listenOutta our homeland and get back to North America Some of the videos have been viewed millions of times, thanks in part to the support of the Communist Youth League and state news outlets.
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