Roxane Gay Quotes

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Roxane Gay

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WomenExpectationsThinkHellRules

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Jim Sturgess

LoveFailureLove IsFatePowerful

I love to travel, so I visit a lot of places.

Song Hye-kyo

LoveTravelPlacesVisitLotI Love

2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.

Roxane Gay

TruthPeopleWorldYearSaidSame

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Derek Jacobi

I AmAlwaysWorkingSenseUnemployed

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

Bradley Cooper

WomanHappyMeGive MeGive

Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

Ashton Kutcher

PeopleBetterEmployeesYouPerson

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

DeathCriticismGeniusDread

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.

Peter Sellers

MeFortySomewhereCutGotMinutes

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

Sela Ward

HistorySoulNew YorkCaringPeople

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Thomas Sydenham

ArtMedicalPracticeMedicineOnly

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

Tim Kennedy

DailyYouEarthPersonWhyAsk

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Marlene Dietrich

FriendThinkSecretTwiceBefore

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