John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Achieve

• When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Encouragement

• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Different
  • Important
  • Change

• I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Working
  • Big

• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • American
  • Law

• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Responsibility
  • Too Much

• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Going
  • Surgeon

• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

  

  Mark Twain
  • World

• As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Time
  • Death
  • Thankful

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Time
  • World
  • Freaky