Jonathan Lethem Quotes

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1964

Topics

ReligionDiversityParentsValues

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Jessica Valenti

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When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

John Lewis

MeGrowing UpImpossibleStudentUp

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Ann Curry

LifeEndMy LifeSayWantAble

As a global carrier, we always have a positive view on investment in infrastructure that supports our industry.

Soren Skou

PositiveViewInvestmentAlwaysOur

Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

Robby Benson

HeartDepressionMomentI AmBlack

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

Roger Corman

TodayBudgetLateMatterStarted

When something is not good, it's bad. Period.

Ritchie Blackmore

GoodBadSomethingPeriod

I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.

Mike Pence

FaithPracticeStandAmericanRight

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Michael Moore

GreatMoneyPeopleIdeasBackNow

Growing up where I grew up, we looked to athletes. They were our first heroes. They came from the same places we came from. I mean, you can't watch TV and see someone who is successful that you can really relate to. That person isn't real; he doesn't exist. But athletes traveled the world, had these big houses and gave their families a better life.

Jay-Z

LifeGrowing UpWorldBetterSomeone

All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.

Domo Genesis

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I never stopped reading.

Doris Lessing

ReadingNeverStopped

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