Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

Anna Deavere Smith

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• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Family
  • Health
  • Violence

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Player
  • Phone

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • High
  • Me

• You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Company

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Family
  • America
  • Victory

• As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Years
  • Young

• I'm a really bad liar.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Bad
  • Really
  • Liar

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Creative

• We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Change
  • Achievement

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Work
  • Doing Good

• A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • World
  • Great
  • Reality

• You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defences. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide, completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and you can trust him not to hurt you.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Weapons

• Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.

  

  Norman Cota
  • Military
  • Gentleman
  • Letting

• Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Political
  • Perspective

• I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Political
  • Notion
  • Realistic

• I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Political