John McWhorter Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
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I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.
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You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
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You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.
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By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.
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I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.
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Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
