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Angela Davis Quotes

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1944

Topics

Think Philosophy Person Teach Who

A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years - people are not really preparing for that.

Robert J. Shiller

Health People Care End Enough You

As an entrepreneur, I've come across countless articles and quotes proudly telling me that I should accept failure, smile, and keep my head up. In other words, I've been told to stay positive. The thing is, when you're forced to shut down a business and let really awesome people you care about go, staying positive is the last thing on your mind.

Positive Smile Failure Business Mind

I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

Live Feel You Way More Everything

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

Truth Know Want Always Going Who

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

Work Trying Lost Now Fullest Mean

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

Rosemary Mahoney

Life God Darkness Past Spiritual

It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

Funny War Violence Dictatorship Talk

I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.

Love Words Better Mouth Feeling Out

I get bored of vacation.

Vacation Bored Get

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

Jonathan Franzen

Training Fun Book Trying Down Way

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

Women Power Beautiful Style Men

We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

Change Truth People Truth Is Think

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