Ralph Ellison Quotes

...to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

Ralph Ellison

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• Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Evidence
  • Extraordinary

• When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Alone
  • Sleep
  • I Can

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Party
  • Politics

• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Live

• I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Think
  • Humanity

• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • True
  • Evil
  • Hypocrite

• Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Great
  • Creativity

• In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Up
  • Important
  • Live

• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Doctor

• Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Passion
  • Fighting

• When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • School
  • Age
  • Acting

• For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Book
  • Start

• I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Everyone

• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self - in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Mirror

• I established relationships with so many of those Iran students that went on for years.And they were so different from American students. They seemed to worship their teachers. The professors were major to them. They wanted to give gifts, and you'd have to say, oh, no, no, you can't do that.

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Students
  • Relationships
  • Iran

• Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • People
  • Hollywood
  • Season

• Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Today
  • Free

• Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.

  

  M. L. Stedman
  • Business
  • Brave
  • Mysterious

• There is no greater crime than desire.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Crime

• ...to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

  

  Ralph Ellison