Stephen Carter Quotes

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

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• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Everything
  • Go
  • Doctor

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Me
  • Appreciation

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Children
  • Home
  • End

• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Ideals
  • Stereotypes

• I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Dream
  • Model
  • Clever

• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Stars

• Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Experience
  • Enemy

• There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Inspiration
  • Creative
  • Process

• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Woman

• Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Makeup

• Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Artists
  • Back

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Time

• Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Dessert

• I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Teacher
  • Same

• You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Murderer
  • Suit

• Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Dream

• In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Generations