Michael Gruber Quotes

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.

Michael Gruber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 1, 1940

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It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

John Amos

StruggleSayWantStereotypePart

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

Sigourney Weaver

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In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

Robin DiAngelo

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I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

Robert Towne

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I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Mathieu Kerekou

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It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

Jay Parini

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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Jean Anouilh

TalentWriteOpenMustLikeWhile

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Dorothea Dix

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No one's built like me. I play 110% on both ends of the floor.

Deandre Ayton

MePlayFloorLikeBuiltBoth

I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

Cory Booker

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Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.

Chrysippus

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius

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