Naomi Wolf Quotes

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Naomi Wolf

• American
• America
• Value
• Racial

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't think what I look like is relevant.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• You don't have to get it right the first time.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Time
  • You
  • First

• We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Faith
  • Young
  • Explain

• Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Bad
  • Working
  • Considered

• Happiness is an inside job.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Job
  • Happiness
  • Inside

• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Health

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • See
  • Leader

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Bring

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Television
  • Race

• Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Kids
  • American
  • Together

• One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Value
  • Human Life
  • Tragedies

• Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Help
  • Smart

• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • America
  • Value