Dean Spade Quotes

Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

Dean Spade

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• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Live
  • Mind
  • May

• I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

  

  Kaki King
  • You
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • High
  • Culture
  • Myself

• You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

  

  J Mascis
  • You
  • Play
  • Everyone

• But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Live
  • Day

• Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Like
  • Prince
  • Beatles

• My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Help
  • Audience
  • Find

• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Problem
  • Republican

• Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Music

• The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Mood

• More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Technology

• I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.

  

  Future
  • Up
  • Giving

• I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Trying
  • Sports

• I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Mother
  • Law

• Someone sent me an article on AI that was written by Tim Urban on the website Wait but Why - that was kind of where I stuck my toes in the puddle, and I said, 'OK, I've gotta learn about this!' I felt like this is one of those things that our generation is going to have to answer for, eventually, and I just wanted to educate myself on it.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Why

• 'Where there is mind, there is always solution,' Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

  

  David Brin
  • Mind

• Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lies

• If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

  

  J. Bowyer Bell
  • Up
  • Society
  • Chaos

• To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Composer
  • Somebody
  • Redundant

• Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Fierce
  • Oppression
  • Gentle