Derrick Bell Quotes

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

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• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Band
  • Son
  • New

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Money
  • Growing

• A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

  

  Larry David
  • Salad

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Work
  • Fitness
  • Diet

• You're probably thinkin’ that you're gonna change me;In some ways well maybe you might.Scrub me down, dress me up.Oh but no matter what,Remember, I'm still a guy.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Evolution doesn’t greatly care about what happens to creatures once they’ve passed on their genetic heritage.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Real
  • War

• When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Theatre
  • Honor

• The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Character
  • Feeling

• My family's a ruling family.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Family

• I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Men

• Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Future
  • Past

• I'm pretty confident.

  

  Libby Trickett
  • Pretty

• In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Family
  • American
  • Culture

• Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Lost
  • Reading
  • Paradise

• My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Good
  • Art
  • Help

• Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

  

  David Bennun
  • Literature
  • Prove
  • Grammy

• Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

  

  Derrick Bell