John Edgar Wideman Quotes

The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.

John Edgar Wideman

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• People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

  

  Tara Reid
  • America
  • Party
  • Stupid

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• I got no hate in me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Got

• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• I enjoy building more than managing.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Enjoy
  • Building
  • More

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Sister

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Great
  • Character

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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  • Just
  • Privilege

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Feel
  • Speak
  • Performance

• When it comes down to it, it's about putting the players on the field that will be the best 11.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn

• The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.

  

  David Harvey
  • Money

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Important
  • American
  • Pain

• The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
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