Stephen Carter Quotes

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Music
  • House

• I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Future
  • Guy
  • Crazy

• My main focus is to help people through music.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Years
  • Dead
  • Just

• Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Born

• We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Live

• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Person
  • Poet

• All I want to do is change the world.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Want
  • Change

• I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life

• No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Interest
  • Gossip

• The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Time
  • Money
  • Miserable

• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  

  K. Sello Duiker
  • Culture

• Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Mean

• I personally would have preferred if the Fed had been a little less aggressive.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Fed

• Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Friends

• Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Moment
  • Fantastic

• Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Strong
  • Intellectual

• Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Intellectual
  • Ethical
  • Nuisance

• My first playpen was a cardboard box.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • Boxes
  • Cardboard

• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Life
  • Success
  • Advice

• To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Intellectual
  • Boxes
  • Labels