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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
-
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.
-
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
-
I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
-
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
-
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.
-
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
-
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
-
I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.
-
I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.
-
It's important for country fans to know that I'm not just trying to come in and take their money for a CD.
-
A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.
-
We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
-
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
