Marilyn French Quotes

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • Gun
  • Going

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

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Desert

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • Organization
  • Ocean

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

  

  Valerie June
  • Day
  • Walking
  • Busy

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Decision

• Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

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

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• 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

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• 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

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• 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

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

  

  Larry King
  • Day
  • Sports
  • Everyday

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Control
  • End

• I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Language
  • Importance
  • Glad

• When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

  

  Marilyn French
  • Black
  • Progress