Claudia Rankine Quotes

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

Claudia Rankine

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AlonePastYourselfTiredYouTurn

So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies.

Robert Gibbs

MeFightingDifferencesStopArguing

You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

Anna Kendrick

CharacterFootballRelaxThinkYou

Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.

John Paulson

ConfidentYouKnowImportantTrue

I always watch Barcelona on TV at home because I like how they play.

Riyad Mahrez

HomePlayAlwaysWatchBarcelonaTV

I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn't actually win anything.

Roberto Firmino

TimeWinAnythingMy TimeEnjoyed

President Trump's executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.

Mike Quigley

ImmigrantsCreatingPresidentNation

If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.

Marv Levy

StartTreesThinkingMotivationYou

Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Mohnish Pabrai

WorkChangeViewProblemYouEnemy

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Michael Mandelbaum

FailureLiveGreatResponsibility

I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.

Lukas Forchhammer

GoodSchoolSingingBelieveSinger

I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

Juice Wrld

CollegeMeMomThoughtNeverKnew

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Jay-Z

HomeMusicRacismMeCoolListening

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