John Edgar Wideman Quotes

The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

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• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Moral
  • Courage

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!

  

  Tamra Davis
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  • Good
  • Try

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
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  • American
  • Control

• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Treat

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • God
  • Believe

• It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • Girl
  • Cool
  • Gang

• Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True
  • Fun
  • Wisdom

• Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
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• Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Family
  • Words
  • Travel

• The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me know that writing is nice.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
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