John McWhorter Quotes

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

OrganizationViolenceNon-Violence

I want to be the Defensive Player of the Year and, if I have the chance, be MVP.

Joel Embiid

ChanceYearWantDefensivePlayer

To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

John Guare

LoveJobCollegeYouPlaceFirst

The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.

John McEnroe

ChangeMistakeGameThinkingLate

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

Steven Rattner

BlessedPriceTaxTaxesLeadUs

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

Lou Reed

YouBeatBassDrumsGuitars

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

Lizz Wright

MyselfMeArtistUniquePlaceHard

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau

SocietyFreeTryingYouTryFirst

Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.

Chris Gardner

MorningPassionSleepNightYouGo

I love to be outside.

Christen Press

LoveOutsideI Love

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

Cory Booker

LoseScholarshipMeetCoachOutGet

I remember seeing the first episode of '24' when I was 13, and to be that face for a 13-year-old and open up that possibility, it shows you the world isn't on fire. There's possibility there.

Corey Hawkins

FireWorldFaceRememberYouSeeing

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