John Shelton Reed Quotes

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

John Shelton Reed

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Powerful
  • Fight
  • Alliance

• Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Money
  • You
  • Responsibility

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Discrimination
  • Agenda

• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Been
  • Skin

• The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Salad

• When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Power
  • Political
  • Faith

• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Me
  • Show
  • Bring

• It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Theatre

• You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

  

  Levon Helm
  • People
  • Different

• If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

  

  George Osborne
  • People
  • Future
  • Financial

• Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Two

• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • People
  • Music
  • History