Jesmyn Ward Quotes

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Policy
  • Foreign Policy

• Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Today
  • Law
  • Beginning

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live
  • Crazy

• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Sex
  • Better

• Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • True
  • Game

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Reputation
  • Would
  • Further

• Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Great
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Moment

• What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Goes

• Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Women
  • Power
  • Unity

• He knew, better than the cynic, that if you look out over the arc of history, human beings should be filled not with fear but with hope.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Hope
  • Fear

• But coercion never produces harmony.  How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will?  Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion.  This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Together

• It seems to me I've heard that song before.It's from an old familiar score.I know it well, that melody.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Song

• 'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Advice
  • Sad

• «What we have done, which you did not do, is to deceive people.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • People
  • Done

• Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

  

  Leonard Cohen

• We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Truth
  • Reality

• I feel like I've woken up with suddenly more facial hair and a deeper voice.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Hair
  • Voice
  • I Feel Like

• I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

  

  William Dampier
  • Rain
  • Fields
  • Pleasant

• As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

  

  Jesmyn Ward