Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

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• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Fall
  • Jam
  • Eleven

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
  • Men
  • Silent

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Happiness

• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
  • Animal
  • Human

• The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Money
  • Why
  • Decision

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Art
  • Book
  • Care

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • New York
  • Brave
  • Hip Hop

• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pain
  • Now
  • Doctor

• Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Said

• I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Society
  • Peace

• Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.

  

  James Luceno
  • High
  • Wife
  • Water

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• 'When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Fighting
  • Drinking

• The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • People
  • World
  • City

• Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • People
  • Black