Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
Kate Bush
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
L.A. Reid
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
Karen Traviss
It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama
'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
Iain Banks
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield
When hands are joined, no one can point fingers.
Jason Mraz
It is splendid - to be - loved! If we only - can - live up - to the thoughts - of us - by them - that love us!
Christina Stead
In real life, we think people don't change, but they do. People do change in profound ways with all the different major things that happen in their lives.
Andrea Navedo
Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.
Lisa Lutz
We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.
Jens Martin Skibsted
