Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

They took my 30s, my 40s, my 50s, but what they couldn't take was my joy. I couldn't do nothing about the years, but I could control my joy... I kept a smile on my face; I kept love in my heart.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.

RuPaul

CultureDoingYouTreasonActDrag

We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he's some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.

Liz Cheney

CommunityAmericaPresidentOver

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Joshua Reynolds

PoorTalkOnlyOratorEloquence

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Dixie Carter

MarriageBelieveDownI Believe

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Dhani Harrison

FatherMeCoolFeelYouYour

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

David Souter

FutureI AmDemocracyAmericanAbout

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Constance Baker Motley

KnowNowOnlyKnewExemplaryThen

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

Claes Oldenburg

WorkYourselfSearchYouArtist

I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

SuccessViewAnimalsBloodReason

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

William Shenstone

DayPeopleEnvyNothingMoreReason

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

Priyanka Chopra

AmbitionOldYearsFourMarried

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Seth Shostak

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