Jess Row Quotes

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

Jess Row

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FearPeopleWorldSocietyYouClass

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

Jesmyn Ward

SchoolPoetryWritingHigh School

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.

Jens Martin Skibsted

ChallengesFinancialAfricaOvercome

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Jean-Paul Sartre

GenerosityEnjoyNothingThrough

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

EarthNothingKansasEvenState

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Robert B. Parker

LifeLiveSmallThinkWayWrite

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

Mickey Rooney

LiveActingProfessionalWantJust

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

ImaginationFreeMissedAlwaysLane

The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.

Dean Devlin

ChangeDirectionSeeComingIceberg

I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.

Conrad Ricamora

LovedVillageWantWestCreated

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Colin Farrell

SeaAlwaysUpFortitudeIncredible

A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

Brendan Iribe

MomentumRiskHardwareFundingLess

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

Willow Smith

HeartSoulPeopleMy SoulKnowTrue

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