Jim Webb Quotes

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

Jim Webb

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HistoryGovernmentSlaveryBlackOwn

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

Jessica Stockholder

PaintingSkinNailsPlumbingPaint

It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.

Maysoon Zayid

JobMeAmericaNeverSheGoing

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.

Matt Ridley

FuturePastMeWorldBetterKnow

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Jeffery Deaver

LiveWriteBooksThemReaders

I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

Amanda Peet

GoodFriendMeFindLooksButt

I don't have no personal problems with nobody.

Tory Lanez

ProblemsNobodyPersonal

The one challenge you have when you're going back into history is that people, unlike with today's news - we think we know what's happened already - we think that it's history and therefore less interesting.

Tom Reiss

TodayHistoryChallengePeopleThink

I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.

Rob Dyrdek

WeekHoursSpendInfrared

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Mick Jagger

MusicJust BecauseKindTrueWay

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Jean Cocteau

ParisNobodyActorContentSpectator

'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

Jonathan Raban

TeaLookingPoliticalAmericaParty

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Douglas Coupland

New YorkPeopleNewOverThemePark

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