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Cornel West Quotes

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1953

Topics

Opinion You Shapes Got Just Rather

When you're doing comedy constantly, you're organized: you know where everything is, you know how to get out of it, you know how to stretch it. But, like, doing 'SNL,' I stopped doing spots, and then I would finally do some sets - it take me so long to, kind of, get in the rhythm of it.

Me Comedy Doing Long You Know

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

Alone Great Look Statistics I Can

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

Together America Values Train Hard

Why commit technological suicide by restricting the flow of talent into the United States?

Talent Suicide Why Flow United

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

People Book You Mouth Numbers Sales

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Push Pace Most Fights Aggressor

My whole life, I grew up watching Tiger Woods. If I tuned in to a golf tournament, that's who I watched.

Life Woods Golf Tiger Watching Up

I like to do a lot of cardio.

Cardio Like Lot

I don't dunk anymore.

As an OCD guy, I find change difficult.

Change Find Difficult Guy

We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.

Change Change The World World Start

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

Me Rebellion Satan Ultimately

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