John Edgar Wideman Quotes

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

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 like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

Jeremy Grantham

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For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.

Jennifer Granholm

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I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

Meg White

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A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

John Norman

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Many science-fiction writers, such as Gregory Benford, are working scientists. Many others, such as Joe Haldeman, have advanced degrees in science. Others, like me, have backgrounds in science and technology journalism.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

Michael Jackson

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My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.

Stephen Colbert

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The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Robert Duvall

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We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

Mike Lowry

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Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

Joshua Foer

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Something I always liked to train is kickboxing.

Jose Aldo

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To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

Brunello Cucinelli

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