Bethany McLean Quotes

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Man

• It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

  

  Vernon Law
  • People
  • Learning
  • Busy

• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Justice

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • God
  • Sun

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Goal
  • Upset

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  

  Gary Larson
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Important

• I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • People
  • Money

• What unfortunately happens is we have about... 350 million interactions with consumers a year, between phone calls and truck calls. It may be over 400 million, and that doesn't count any online interactions, which I think is over a billion. You get one-tenth of one-percent bad experience, that's a lot of people - unacceptable.

  

  Brian L. Roberts
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Feel
  • Summer
  • Season

• The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Fighting

• Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

  

  Bethany McLean
  • People
  • Black
  • Choices