Stanley Crouch Quotes

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Stanley Crouch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1945

Topics

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We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Jim Pattison

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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

Joe Klein

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Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

John Agyekum Kufuor

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When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

Jenny Lewis

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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Mel Torme

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Steny Hoyer

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We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

Sonny Bono

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I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.

Ruth Rendell

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I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Christie Hefner

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I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

Chris Messina

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I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.

Ashton Irwin

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My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Shane Carruth

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