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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Sports America Boxing Become Theater

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.

Myself College Chance Acting Country

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Joy Two Your Utility Wardrobe Item

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Stuart Symington

Going Would Rather Than Our Them

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Life Father Teacher School Country

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

Money Gangster Early Paradise Get

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.

Alone Challenge People Alive Right

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Good People Design Everyday Very

Small unit autonomy, breaking the right rules, cultural influence, and relationship building has always been the heart Special Operations. Something must be done to ensure these are not lost to the big machine of SOCOM.

Relationship Heart Building Small

I would love a robot butler.

Love Robot Would Butler

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

Trust Past Person Human Denial Who

I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.

Lisa Cholodenko

Imagination Writing Think You Done

The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.

Age Power Justice Grace World Kings

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