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Trevor Noah Quotes

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Trevor Noah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: south african
Birth: February 20, 1984

Topics

Racism Direction Said More Band

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Jim DeMint

Government Building Political You

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Max Hastings

Life School People Rules Play Going

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Jeff Koons

Music Art Me Enjoy Powerful Say

When you get older, you have to wrestle with what's appropriate behavior a little bit more. Am I not acting too old or too young?

Stephen Malkmus

Behavior You Acting Young More Old

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

Tony Harrison

Person Who Much Himself About Sort

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

Diane English

Creative Face Upside Down You Down

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

Chris Lane

Time Moment Me Song First Radio

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Christopher Morley

Bear Never Hardest Misfortunes Came

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Change Peace More Involved Where

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Anthony Kiedis

Butterfly People Hill Rock Like Did

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Alice Hamilton

Experience Industrial Interest Also

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Peter Benenson

Day Religion Government World You