Robert Wilkie Quotes

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.

Robert Wilkie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1962

Topics

NeverExperiencedCommunalPrivate

In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it's a sign of weakness to ask for help.

Jesmyn Ward

CultureWeaknessAmericanHelpAsk

Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.

Andie MacDowell

WorkEducationGreatPeopleMeYou

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.

John Mahoney

DesireOfficeMovementYearsTorch

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.

Robert Gottlieb

HeartStoryMeaningKnowWayText

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

Amanda Harlech

HomeWritingDoneMoreComing Home

People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.

Amy Cuddy

BestPeopleControlRiseAbility

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.

Suki Waterhouse

ClothesYoungTomboyHated

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Mike Epps

MotherRespectManBabyBlackI Can

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'

Michael K. Williams

ChildhoodYouKnowColorfulPretty

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

Mo Ibrahim

WomenCookingSocietyDoingPosition

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

Derek Cianfrance

TodayPeopleOpinionFactsYouNews

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

Ciaran Hinds

LifeMeYoungAwareReadMade

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