Roxane Gay Quotes

Love your friends' kids, even if you don't want or like children. Just do it.

Roxane Gay

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No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

LiveRelationshipMountainsYourself

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

John Abizaid

PeopleBlameWorldViewAmerica

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Robert J. Bentley

ChildrenCareTake CareChoosePoor

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

Andy Serkis

LoveMeActingNowCanvasBigger

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

John Scalzi

SayWantWillSalesBecauseBlog

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

Amy Landecker

PeopleSelf-LoveCombinationJust

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Siri Hustvedt

MyselfCuriosityBornDesireMastery

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Ron Chernow

DayMindsExtraordinaryTouchedHad

I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

Joseph Stiglitz

TechnologySciencePeopleWinning

Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.

Dean Ornish

InnovationPowerToo MuchInstitution

My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.

Chris Hardwick

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I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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