bell hooks Quotes
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.
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This is America. Success is not guaranteed.
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I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.
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Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
