Michel De Certeau Quotes

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Michel De Certeau

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If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Maureen McCormick

YouWaySomethingGoing

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

Anna Paquin

MeActingBoringWouldLikeNone

I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.

Sterling K. Brown

WorkGreatBlackRememberActorDid

The best revenge in the world is success.

Suge Knight

SuccessBestWorldRevenge

I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.

Sigrid Nunez

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When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

Troy Perry

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Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Mike Huckabee

MoneyPoliticsIdeasToo MuchKind

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Doug Ose

SmartPeopleStupidPoolKindDamn

As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting, and it is traumatizing.

Alicia Garza

YouBackWhiteCountryKeepLayers

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Peter Drucker

KnowledgeDecisionExpectationsNeed

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

TruthSadExcellencePeopleTruth Is

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

Noam Chomsky

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