John Edgar Wideman Quotes

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality differently.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1941

Topics

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I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

Maye Musk

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You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.

John Lithgow

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If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.

Jeff Duncan

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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

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There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

Stan Van Gundy

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If you don't think it's possible to win five golds, go talk to Michael Phelps.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Astro Teller

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The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.

Allan McNish

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Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

William Labov

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The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

Peter D. Mitchell

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Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

Nick Rahall

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While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet.

Murray Rothbard

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