Anna Deavere Smith Quotes

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

Anna Deavere Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 18, 1950

Topics

FearLivePoliticsDeepDisrespect

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

Jim Broadbent

SelfishThinkSometimesTopCapable

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

John Gourley

ArtMoneyStartEnjoyYouPrice

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GodHeavenPoorLittleCostMarket

Tester voted for President Obama's nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan but opposed President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch. That's not representing our Montana values.

Matt Rosendale

ValuesPresidentMontanaOurTrump

I am Scottish. I am also British.

Andy Murray

I AmBritishScottishAmAlso

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Stephen King

LoveMeBlessedFeelWriteAlways

Were the United States to pass a law requiring all cars to be methanol-capable flex-fuel vehicles, or simply repeal EPA regulations that prevent such conversions from being carried out privately, our immense natural-gas capacity could make a dramatic entrance into the liquid-fuel market.

Robert Zubrin

LawOutDramaticUnitedPassMarket

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Ron Chernow

WindowWorldLearnStock MarketYou

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

AloneBestWithinMarbleArtists

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

Lou Doillon

ChildrenMeStrongThinkMovement

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

Jase Robertson

FlyingDuckSittingSameShot

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Deborah Tannen

RelationshipMistakeConversationWay

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