John Prendergast Quotes

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

John Prendergast

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• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Look
  • Window

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Child
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Special

• Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Kind
  • Red
  • Dirty

• Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Myself
  • Paris
  • Anniversary

• I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Body
  • Drink

• The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Never
  • Been
  • Dwell

• This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Chinese

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People

• Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Confidence

• For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Great
  • Long
  • Bad

• It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Up
  • Fun

• In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • Truth
  • Reading

• I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Basketball

• We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Water
  • Forever

• I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Political

• I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. With technology now, people are getting more and more isolated. I like the community coming around the story. You don't have that with a DVD. People go home, they're tired from work, they can turn it off. It doesn't make you commit the same way, if you can control the movie. More difficult movies, it's too easy to turn them off. All the time, I see movies I know if I had seen it on DVD, I wouldn't have hung with it. If you see it on the screen, you hang with it and it pays off better than a movie you can easily sit through on DVD.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Home
  • Technology

• I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

  

  Jim Cramer
  • Good
  • Bad

• Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

  

  John Prendergast