Patrisse Cullors Quotes

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

Patrisse Cullors

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• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Perfect
  • Player
  • Exist

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Me

• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • English
  • Literature

• Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Old
  • Sail

• I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • High
  • Team
  • Season

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Conflict
  • Teachers

• I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Number
  • Vices
  • Moderation

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Parents

• My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • Music

• I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Believe
  • America
  • Proud

• Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.

  

  China Chow
  • Work

• When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Black
  • Party
  • Romantic