Claudia Rankine Quotes

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Claudia Rankine

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LoveMeLanguageYouSometimesTell

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

Jimmy Page

SchoolMeGuitarHomeworkYouLook

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Robert Krulwich

TimeTrustWordsEyeLearnPowerful

I love the heat and the excitement of Israel, and I will always love Jerusalem.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

LoveWillExcitementHeatAlways

Where I'm from, you go to college, become a carpenter or something, and stay in the district.

Travis Fimmel

CollegeYouGoBecomeSomething

Bacon. Let's talk about bacon. There's no meat more glorious than bacon. You can add it to pasta instead of cheese. You can stick it in a sandwich, er... instead of cheese.

Rob Manuel

YouCheesePastaTalkMoreMeat

I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.

Rotimi

PrayerMomChurchWarriorUpLike

It's important you think positively not negatively. Think about your loved ones and all the people who are behind you.

Mo Farah

PeopleThinkLovedYouImportant

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Clint Eastwood

FateYouDifferentDirections

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

William Westmoreland

OutVietnamInvolvedEngagementWon

Unlike other children, I did not get a branded video game. Mine was an open circuit that even buzzed.

Pranav Mistry

ChildrenGameOpenGetMineEven

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

Shawn Ryan

PeopleWritingYouUniqueKnowWant

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

Thomas Friedman

MotherPowerCountrySayMoreClean

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