Caroline Knapp Quotes

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

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• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Only
  • Got

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • High
  • Death
  • Moral

• In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Small
  • College

• I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feeling
  • Anymore
  • Kansas

• Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Fear

• I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • Looking Forward

• We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • War
  • Inspired

• There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Flying
  • Over
  • Border

• It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Themselves
  • Hang

• Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.

  

  James Bay
  • Real
  • Song

• I had the perfect level, growing up, between being normal and having a little taste into Hollywood. People would recognize me once in a while, but I could still go out and have my life.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Always a big fan of the Browns, of course. No wonder how bad they lost or how much we froze to death out there, we still went to the games to watch them lose.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Bad
  • Death
  • Lost

• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • World
  • Pleasant

• Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Black
  • Culture