Victor LaValle Quotes

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

Victor LaValle

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• Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Times

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Cutting

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Same
  • Now
  • Weight

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writer
  • Use

• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Land
  • Issue
  • Which

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Space
  • Water

• As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with each other and for the good of the broader society. It is necessary because much of what God determines to do, or not do, in the world is determined by His relationship to His people.

  

  Tony Evans
  • People
  • World
  • Purpose

• People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • God
  • Respect