Jesmyn Ward Quotes

People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

Jesmyn Ward

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PeopleCollegeThinkBackAfraid

Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

Jerome Corsi

I AmMeConstitutionDoingPartyAm

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

EducationMotherValueJoyPeople

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Michael Crichton

DrawingBloodEmergencySurgerySaw

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

Steve Kazee

LifeFoodBestGovernmentWaiting

Do what is best for most people, not just a few. Prevent your elites and growing middle class, those who often benefit most from growth and development, from turning into a special interests group that blocks reforms.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

GrowthBestPeopleGrowingGroup

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

Tom Brokaw

GoMaintenanceWillCancerKeep

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

Rupert Friend

PeopleReputationFeelFindTrue

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Roy Blount, Jr.

ArtCreativityGardeningMeWriting

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

Joshua Foer

TodayCultureFocusQualityValue

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.

Jon Watts

AgeAppreciationMeWorldStory

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Don DeLillo

MeWritingThinkingForm

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Dick Ebersol

CareerAnythingCenterBothOlympics

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