Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

  

  Vince Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Moment

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Name

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Great
  • Judgment

• Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Wonderful

• In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Girl
  • Sexy

• On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• The thing I love about Wisconsin is the people. We have such incredible people here. It's fun to recognize the incredible athletes and coaches and sponsors and people we have here tonight. But we also have incredible fans.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fans

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Black
  • Religious

• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

  

  William James
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• The first view of the Earth is magical... in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred. You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Life
  • Work
  • Earth

• We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Live
  • Law

• I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

  

  Martin Frost

• I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Good
  • Crisis
  • Panic

• All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
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