Curt Flood Quotes

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

Curt Flood

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• Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Strong
  • Smart
  • Bodies

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • American
  • Simple

• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Catholic

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Realizing

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • World
  • Great
  • Trying

• Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Team
  • Die
  • Heal

• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Majority

• ... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Feelings

• Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • People
  • Live
  • Why

• I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Feel Sorry

• I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

  

  Anna Wickham
  • She
  • Fear
  • Faith

• I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Name
  • Slave
  • Praise

• It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Gods
  • Slave
  • Flames

• A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Wells
  • Slave
  • Paid