Roxane Gay Quotes

You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.

Roxane Gay

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Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.

Jimmy Iovine

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Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

Jim James

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Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people - and not just on my football team. I'm not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.

Joe Paterno

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All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Joan Didion

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Established technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google have expanded their reach and influence throughout the world. And while many countries have pushed back against that spread, our government has essentially left them alone.

Jenna Wortham

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If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Stephen Hunter

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Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

Sophie Thompson

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Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

Tom Scholz

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F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.

Jean Alesi

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To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Josh Trank

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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Joseph Butler

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I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

Bobby Bonilla

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