Bruce Bawer Quotes

The most important of these activists was Jimmy Garrett, a member of both the Black Panthers and SNCC. Garrett led discussion groups at which, as he later explained, "we would talk about ourselves seeking identity, and stuff like that. A lot of folks didn't even know they were black. A lot of people thought they were Americans".

Bruce Bawer

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• People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • People
  • Jump

• I'm a rugby player, really, and I knew I was going to get to him, and when he was about two yards away I just put my head down. There was no malice. I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move in soccer.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Player
  • Soccer

• This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Courage
  • Anonymous
  • Twitter

• Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

  

  Clement Mok
  • People
  • Lost
  • Simple

• We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Understand
  • Something
  • Really

• Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Women
  • Sweet
  • Revenge

• Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Stop
  • Complexity
  • Activists

• Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Violence
  • Advocate
  • Cops

• The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

  

  Katie Cleary
  • Message
  • Misconception
  • Activists

• Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.

  

  Jonathan Franklin
  • Operation
  • Activists
  • Whales

• All I can think is that the owners of Chick-Fil-A have decided they have had enough, that they're just going to focus on selling chicken sandwiches to as many people as they can, and they figure that keeping their views about marriage to themselves is better than having a bunch of angry activists on your doorstep.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • People
  • Enough
  • Decided

• When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

  

  Stéphane Charbonnier
  • Violence
  • Activists
  • Pretext

• Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it's something I really want.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Family
  • Future
  • Sister

• Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Vision

• I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • People
  • Idea
  • Fixated

• When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Teenager

• I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

  

  Andrew Chan
  • Friend
  • Brother
  • Look

• At this very moment astronomers are detecting planets around distant stars by measuring how much their orbits wobble and the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop. The story of how we measure the physical universe is the history of science itself.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Science
  • Measuring
  • Astronomers

• To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Successful
  • Failing

• My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

  

  Noah Gray-Cabey
  • Friends
  • College
  • Drive

• We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Revolution

• Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Philosophy

• Records don't have to be perfect.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Perfect
  • Records

• The most important of these activists was Jimmy Garrett, a member of both the Black Panthers and SNCC. Garrett led discussion groups at which, as he later explained, "we would talk about ourselves seeking identity, and stuff like that. A lot of folks didn't even know they were black. A lot of people thought they were Americans".

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • Activists
  • Black Panthers
  • Jimmy Garrett