Elaine Welteroth Quotes
I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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Restful sleep is a key ingredient to living a miraculous life. I'm not saying we need eight or ten hours a night to feel fully rested. In fact, sometimes less sleep can be more restorative than many hours. The key is to have real sleep... the drooling-on-the-pillow kind of sleep.
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We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
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I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
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I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
