Michelle Alexander Quotes
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.Michelle Alexander
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
Walter Isaacson -
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie -
There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Naguib Mahfouz
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If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
Adam D'Angelo -
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo -
Western films don't do very well in India.
Baz Luhrmann -
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
T. S. Eliot -
You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
Ogden Nash -
The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks Doth practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
Ogden Nash -
I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
Linus Torvalds -
If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Charles Dickens -
Most of Gingrich's moderate positions are rooted in a realpolitik that transcends ideology.
David Grann -
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
Martha Beck -
Everybody has a different definition of the good side.
Will Wright -
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood -
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift -
There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy.
Jonathan Klein -
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.
Michelle Alexander