Gayl Jones Quotes

I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

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• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Years

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Poetry
  • Short
  • Stand

• If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Very
  • Ride
  • Park

• Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Know
  • Support
  • Sister

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Know

• The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Power
  • Someone
  • Admire

• When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • People
  • Different
  • Style

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Technology
  • Vision
  • Firsts

• I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Long
  • Future

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• Cars used to have such dashing shapes, like airplanes, back when gas was cheap, twenty-five cents a gallon.

  

  John Updike

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius