Jennine Capó Crucet Quotes

I've come to see the American Dream for what it really is: a lie my parents had little choice but to buy into and sell to me, a lie that conflated working hard with passing for, becoming, and being white.

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• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Child
  • Sister

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Career

• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Comedian

• I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Brother
  • New
  • New York

• Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Peace
  • Issue
  • Palestine

• There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Education
  • Rights
  • Abortion

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Green

• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Want
  • Peace
  • Nations

• Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Food
  • Spoiled
  • Southerner

• With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.

  

  Adam Green
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Way

• I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Chinese military
  • Defense minister
  • United States

• It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Old

• This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Dream
  • Relationship
  • Eyes

• The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Choice
  • Non-Existence

• I've come to see the American Dream for what it really is: a lie my parents had little choice but to buy into and sell to me, a lie that conflated working hard with passing for, becoming, and being white.

  

  Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Dream
  • Choice
  • Buy