Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
-
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
-
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
-
When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
-
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
-
We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
-
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
-
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
-
I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
-
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
-
It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
-
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
-
He who frames the question wins the debate.
-
I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
-
My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
-
In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
-
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
-
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
-
Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.
-
He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.
-
Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.
