Alexandra Fuller Quotes

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Alexandra Fuller

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• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Done
  • Win

• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Night

• Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Way
  • Say
  • Only

• My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Long
  • You
  • Happen

• I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Music
  • Find

• It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • World
  • Space

• I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Music
  • Silence
  • Television

• Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • People
  • Live
  • Failure

• The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Mechanism
  • Trigger
  • Coping

• Don’t be friends with jerks.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Friends

• Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • True
  • Peace

• In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Attitude
  • Ambition