Roxane Gay Quotes

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

Roxane Gay

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OpportunityReflectionBestPeople

I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.

Jimmy Page

GoodMusicI AmNeverRemembering

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

Steve Forbes

EconomyJuiceKeepGoingPlenty

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

John Ralston Saul

DemocracyFreeCapitalismRunWill

I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me anything that is on their mind.

John Rampton

MindMeDoorEmployeeOpenAnything

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Tony Scott

FamilyLoveRespectTimeManSweet

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

Ron White

FunnyThinkingCreditGuiltyThree

I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.'

Lizz Wright

MeGreenFeetFastRunNothing

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Josephine Baker

YouInsultBecauseLikeEvenMuch

When I was running across the country, I was doing 40 or 50 miles a day in sleeting snow with zero visibility for five or six days in a row. Ten to 12 hours of running in that is monotony beyond belief.

Dean Karnazes

SnowDayDoingCountryBeliefDays

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

Coretta Scott King

JourneyVisionSoulMy SoulValues

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

Colin Donnell

AlwaysBeatBeenJustFanHe

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

Autumn Reeser

LovePeopleTryingSkinActBecause

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