Dorothy Allison Quotes

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

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• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Happen

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Want
  • Like
  • Painting

• I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Long
  • Listening
  • Look

• Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Easy
  • Build
  • Shallow

• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Best
  • Find

• My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Mother
  • End

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.

  

  Laura Robson
  • World
  • End
  • Tennis

• I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Job
  • Others

• All truth is not to be told at all times.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Times
  • Truth Is

• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Man
  • Marriage

• You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • People
  • Together
  • Cool

• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Ocean
  • Environmental
  • Drop

• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Never
  • Revolution
  • Place

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Creature
  • Washington

• I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Age
  • Library

• You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Guy
  • Forever

• He is not mad. He is only more clever than you. It is not the same.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Mad
  • Clever

• I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.

  

  Eric West
  • Strong
  • Homeless
  • My Dad

• Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

  

  Dorothy Allison