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

• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Always
  • Look
  • See

• 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

• A sense of utter loneliness-loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness-enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Life
  • Death

• 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

• I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Funny
  • Rumors

• I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.

  

  Denholm Elliott
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  

  John Milton
  • Work
  • God
  • Blind

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

  

  Derrick Bell