Robin DiAngelo Quotes

We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.

Robin DiAngelo

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ChangeMoralProtectParticipation

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

John Locke

ManBalanceVillainWayAlwaysLike

Obviously, there's a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting... I've gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Angelina Jolie

DeathMeWorldViolenceSkillGone

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

AgeBecomeSameAudienceSame Age

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

HopeJoyBabyPresentLoseEarth

I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

Monica Crowley

FreedomGreatResponsibilityHappy

I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.

Jonathan Ive

YourselfThinkLearnYouUnderstand

My major task was to keep us solvent.

Cheryl Crawford

TaskKeepUsMajorSolvent

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Chris Van Allsburg

FaithPowerChildrenImagination

I own all 7 seasons of 'The Golden Girls.'

Conrad Ricamora

SeasonsGoldenOwn

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

Brad Pitt

ReligionTruckYouStopWaySee

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Bobby Keys

GolfPlaySometimesPoorRound

Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa in the early 19th century. You need them. And you need sponsorship on a daily basis. I have a painter friend here who says, 'I need two compliments a day just to break even.' And we gave them to each other, and we got them - and honestly got them.

Allan Gurganus

FriendDailyGreatDayNew YorkYou

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