Michelle Alexander Quotes

Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history.

Michelle Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1967

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There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.

Jesmyn Ward

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I have memories of doing 'Toys In The Attic' and being on the floor next to my drums, on my back, laughing.

Joey Kramer

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Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

Jenny Lewis

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I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

Jenna Dewan

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In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

John Linder

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Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with its capacity for another 120 million passengers will allow us to continue growing.

Maurice Flanagan

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I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

Ann Dowd

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You need to suffer to be interesting.

Alyson Hannigan

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I have a good flavor memory.

Tom Douglas

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A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

Deepak Chopra

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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