Michelle Alexander Quotes
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
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I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.
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I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.
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My focus is on issues where I can make a difference to stop the liberal agenda being pushed by President Obama.
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I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
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Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support.
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I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.
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There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
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I've studied classical singing, but not to a great extent.
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I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
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No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid
