John McWhorter Quotes

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

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RelationshipPeopleBlackThinkSame

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

Jilly Cooper

ManNewNothingMoreAttractiveWho

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Jerry Saltz

ArtistPerfectGerman

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

Jello Biafra

FutureHistoryPeopleControlEgo

I get too excited about football and rugby.

Matthew Lewis

FootballRugbyExcitedGetAbout

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Sophocles

ManWishesBecomeCureHeEvils

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Michel Hazanavicius

CinemaSatisfactionAnythingFrench

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Moliere

PeopleLaughStrangeMakeEnterprise

I had a few ducks as a kid.

Michael Leunig

KidDucksFewHad

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

Lorene Scafaria

SchoolLooking BackLookingThink

It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!

Joyce Meyer

HomePeopleAmazingMeChurchHelp

To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.

Jason Kander

PoliticsLosingWinningCareYou

I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.

Christopher Lee

AchievementPeopleWaitBookThink

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