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Stokely Carmichael Quotes

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Stokely Carmichael

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998

Topics

Time Vote Privilege Right Tried

It's very hard to fake. When you see Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig in 'Bridesmaids,' you can tell they really love each other.

Jessica St. Clair

Love Fake You Hard See Tell

I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

John Carney

World Song Small Thinking You Out

I hate when actors call stuff they're in their 'work.'

Jeremy Sisto

Work Hate Call Stuff

I was the oldest model in South Africa - I grew up in South Africa, but I was born in Canada - and then when I moved back to Canada, to Toronto, at 42, I was a grandmother doing front covers. I was the oldest model in Canada.

Maye Musk

Doing Back Born Canada Grandmother

Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That's why they concentrated on something new: cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

Financial American Lawyers Cinema Go

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

Michael Dirda

I Am Youth Old Thrift Something Am

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

John Podhoretz

Children Research Media Suicide

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Stanley Tucci

You Be Careful Director Over Film

People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth.

River Viiperi

Eyes People Mom Face Mouth Looks

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

Rodrigo Santoro

Work Sometimes Overcome Brazil Make

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

Michael Moore

Medical Bills Cause

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

Dennis Quaid

Football Team Late Drama Out Up