Roxane Gay Quotes

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Roxane Gay

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CuriousWritingReadingStopOver

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, 'You don't know anything.' Because everyone, when they're young, they think they know what's going on in the world, and you don't.

Jocko Willink

WorldThinkSelfYouBackYoung

If there's one thing I've learned after a lifetime of dining on delicacies like blood pudding, sea squirts, and camel kidneys, even folks who wouldn't come within 100 yards of a Cambodian tarantula want to hear what it's like to chomp on one!

Andrew Zimmern

SeaBloodWantDiningWithinCamel

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

Andy Biersack

MusicMeCoolThoughtInteresting

If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.

Srikumar Rao

GoodYourselfThinkThinkingYouUp

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

Shuji Nakamura

ResearchNeverStartedLaserLed

You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

Rob Halford

MusiciansYouBandWhoYour

Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one, which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny, and I thought the love story was very, very touching.

Michel Hazanavicius

LifeFunnyLoveMarriageBookStory

I like those really multidimensional characters like Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt.

Mick Foley

LikeThoseCharactersReallyDean

My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie 'Chavez.' And at the same time, it was when all the bailouts were happening.

Michael Pena

FatherTimeBrotherSameStarting

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

Joyce Meyer

JoyHappyPeopleMeDoingYou

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Joseph Stalin

PowerLongRealOutOnlyRifle

There is a feeling among the Arabs - encouraging terrorist activity is part of the broad new Arab strategy - that sooner or later, Israel will be forced to withdraw from Samaria, Judea and Gaza.

Ariel Sharon

StrategyFeelingNewWillIsrael

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