Clarence Thomas Quotes

I claim my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

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• This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Desert

• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nice

• We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Another

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Responsibility
  • Meaning

• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • Man
  • Greatest

• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Lust

• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Literature

• I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • City
  • Second

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Reality
  • Small
  • Reality TV

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Present
  • Win
  • Moment

• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Rock

• Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Black

• Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Color
  • Red
  • Green

• These are the visionary, mystical moments, when a man 'completes his partial mind'. His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Moments

• I claim my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Black