Bob Herbert Quotes

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.

Bob Herbert

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• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Know
  • I Can

• I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Why
  • Know
  • Sick

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Art
  • Future
  • Song

• The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Today
  • Technology
  • Government

• Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Eyes

• The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Purpose
  • Solution
  • Self-Esteem

• You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • World
  • Work
  • College

• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • inspirational

• Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Revenge
  • Vengeance

• But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Know
  • Calendar
  • Christmas time

• We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Traveled
  • Hippo

• The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Christ
  • Greatest Love

• Nature's imagination far surpasses our own.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Imagination

• There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Evolution
  • Genuine
  • Pretend

• journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • World
  • Business
  • Way

• The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beautiful
  • New York
  • Editors

• We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.

  

  Bob Herbert
  • Pretend
  • Racist
  • Integration