Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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PowerWorldYouLoseSightNever

There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Jimmy Carter

CollegePerceptionNameBadPlace

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

Jennifer Egan

YouBackRulesPersonGoWild

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

John Romero

GameBecomeSizePointServeMarket

I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.

Skitch Henderson

BusinessGreatSchoolPeopleMe

My movie now, to me, is going to help so many people to realize that it is okay to ask for help. It took me so long to be able to ask for somebody to help me.

Tonya Harding

PeopleMeHelpLongNowOkay

Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

Robin Marantz Henig

RelationshipChildrenParentsThink

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

Rosa Bonheur

MeNeverBotheredImbeciles

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

Roseanne Barr

MyselfThinkWeirdWatchJustRoar

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

GoodChildhoodPeopleThinkYouSay

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

Courteney Cox

MeanYearsBoredGeminiLastGet

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Chuck Palahniuk

BostonDogsTwoGotEverywhere

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Bob Riley

WomenLiveFreedomMenSometimesUs

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