John McWhorter Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson -
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.'
Vicki Lawrence -
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.
Caitlin Doughty -
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
M. Russell Ballard -
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Pamela Anderson
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
Eddie Money -
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.
Edith Widder -
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.
Q-Tip -
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Victor Kiam -
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Edgar Winter
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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.
Carine Roitfeld -
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett -
People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
Maisie Williams -
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
R. Kelly -
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.
Gavin Newsom -
Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
Harper Lee
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley -
I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.
Penn Jillette -
That's an important statement to make, and I think that certainly has to get out there because I think it is still -- there is a lot of fear among seniors.
Olympia Snowe -
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
David Quammen -
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
John McWhorter