John Edgar Wideman Quotes
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.John Edgar Wideman
Quotes to Explore
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent -
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney -
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker -
I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
T. J. Miller -
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
R. L. Stine -
I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
Tatyana Ali
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Home is where your rump rests.
Rachel Brosnahan -
I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
Karlie Kloss -
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
Aaron Paul -
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
Orson Pratt -
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X -
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
Natalie Zea -
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
Sami Gayle -
I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
Becky Lynch -
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
Walter O'Brien -
I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
Earl Campbell -
Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
Adam Hamilton
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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor -
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
Ken Burns -
I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher -
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
Aime Cesaire -
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
John Edgar Wideman