Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.Uzodinma Iweala
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa -
There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
Naomie Harris -
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
Gary Gygax -
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Oscar Wilde
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vagueness is a 'romantic' value.. ..an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.
Ad Reinhardt -
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
Aldo Leopold -
Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
Antonio Porchia -
I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'
Lewis Black -
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
Donna Leon -
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
Constance Baker Motley
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To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington -
I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
Kirstie Alley -
I'm not here to hurt anyone or harm anyone.
Jake Paul -
As a competitor, you want to be out there in the fire with your teammates.
Brock Osweiler -
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.
Elaine Pagels -
We all say things that we later regret.
Bruce Braley
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With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.
Bill Kurtis -
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
Dana Snyder -
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Francis Bacon -
There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.
Jakob Bohme -
A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
Edward Noyes Westcott -
European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.
Uzodinma Iweala