Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'Paul Mooney
Quotes to Explore
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Social revolutions are never simple.
Yair Lapid -
In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
Aasif Mandvi -
Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
Rachel Stevens -
I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
Maelle Gavet -
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
Nathan Fillion -
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
Eckhart Tolle
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
Kate Micucci -
I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
Iman -
The American dream is still to own your home.
Barry Sternlicht -
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall -
I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
J. B. Smoove -
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
Walter Murch
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
R. J. Cutler -
I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
Jackson Katz -
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
Dana Plato -
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
Bette Midler -
Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
D. Elton Trueblood
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I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.
Lauren Graham -
It was great to do it against Saint Rose. My father's whole family went there. I broke the Saint Rose chain. I was going crazy at the end, but they weren't going to foul me. I knew I'd have to get a rebound to draw the foul, and that's what happened.
John Reed -
It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and sometimes revel in the experience. If she wasn't here, or she was just here as a civilian, she maybe would feel uncomfortable.
Carey Mercer -
Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.
Eugene Gendlin -
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
Paul Mooney