John McWhorter Quotes
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I don't do meetings.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...
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I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
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Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
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It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
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As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves.
