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.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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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.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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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.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Western films don't do very well in India.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
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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.
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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.
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
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The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
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Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.
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As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
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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.
