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.

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• There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Desire
  • Single
  • Hand

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Compete

• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Action
  • Revolution

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Creative

• With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Stars
  • Caring

• Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Learn
  • Same
  • Everyone

• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Remember

• 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
  • Why
  • She
  • Think

• 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
  • Music
  • Popular
  • Changes

• 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
  • Character
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• '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
  • True
  • Light

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Present

• I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!" I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Writing
  • School
  • Words

• I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

  

  Martin Henderson

• I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Change
  • Hair
  • Color

• One of the biggest lessons that we hope to model for several folks, including some of the young women of color who come to me, is the value of understanding your worth, standing up, and demanding the best for yourself and not taking less.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Up
  • Women
  • Hope

• White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.

  

  Jess Row
  • People
  • Color
  • Daily

• 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
  • Color