Aaron McGruder Quotes
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it's a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it's not really popular with the people.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I aroused Judith’s contempt by asking what good all this was likely to do to mankind? There is no question that annoys your true scientist more.
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The women Democrats and Republicans work together incredibly well.
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Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
