Fady Joudah Quotes
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
-
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
-
I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
-
I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
-
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
-
I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
-
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
-
I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
-
To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
-
I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
-
I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
-
This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
-
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
-
You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
-
Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
-
A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
-
I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
-
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
-
'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.
-
It's good to be sexy, but when that's all they can see - no.
-
I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
-
Don't use a pick-up line.
-
I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
-
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
