Jane Elliott Quotes

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Jane Elliott

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Morning

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Home
  • Golf

• Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Art
  • Political
  • Way

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Company
  • Intellectual

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • High
  • Quality
  • Challenges

• Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Military
  • Revolution

• I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Play
  • First
  • Guitar

• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Book

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Enemy
  • Cold
  • Shots

• Organizations, whether they are nonprofits or enterprise, need to be aware that nation-states are coming after them for political espionage, economic espionage, or destructive attacks.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • Political

• The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Men
  • Today

• My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

  

  Andy Rourke The Smiths
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Political
  • Hate