Jerome Charyn Quotes

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Jerome Charyn

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LifeSolitudeMy LifeLandscapeOwn

The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.

Jerry Garcia

ProcessGuitarAestheticYouTry

The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.

Michael T. Flynn

TrustGovernmentPeopleForwardGap

It's good to have a goal.

Mindy Grossman

GoodGoal

When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people.

DeRay Mckesson

GreatPeopleAmericaWillRaceOut

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeThinkHimStageDegreeOut

You have to go by your instincts in casting.

Sydney Pollack

YouGoInstinctsYourCasting

You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.

Shawn Achor

SmileSomeoneYouBackSayReaction

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

JoyThingsUs

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what's right?

Riley Keough

PeopleYouSexMoralSayRight

In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.

Lynn Nottage

ListeningBecomeI CameWhichCame

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

Ernst Thalmann

MePoliticalCruelForceAgainst

I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out.

Ezra Miller

PeopleThinkRememberResultPlay

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