Alex Haley Quotes

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • High
  • Way
  • Foolish

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Long
  • Government
  • Internet

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Conflict

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Light
  • Sometimes
  • Queen

• Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • History

• You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

  

  John Zorn
  • Kids
  • Movie

• If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

  

  Dante Hall
  • City
  • Hand

• Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Life
  • Up

• It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Up
  • Country
  • Mirror

• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

  

  Alex Haley
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