Alphonso Jackson Quotes

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

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• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • War
  • Man
  • Soldiers

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • War
  • History
  • Legacy

• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Knowledge
  • Respect
  • Practice

• Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Best
  • Red
  • Circle

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Virtue
  • Ever
  • Sciences

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

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Going
  • Colour
  • Inequality

• Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Right
  • New
  • Now

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Speed
  • Endurance

• My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Family
  • She
  • Together

• It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

  

  Janet Frame
  • Live
  • Lost
  • Nice

• I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of me.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Period

• Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Duty
  • Temptation
  • Loudest

• When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

  

  Mark Walport
  • People

• The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • History
  • Color