Anthea Butler Quotes

What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for the public good, or is it to curate the heaps of hate emails, tweets, and right-wing articles that trash your intellectual and social work?

Anthea Butler

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I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.

Maxine Waters

WomanStrongBlackCannotUndermined

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.

John Moody

GovernmentWarLandDecadeRailway

London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it's actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain.

Robert Rinder

EffortPeopleLondonIndifference

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Jeff Tweedy

MusicListenThievesAudienceAbsurd

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

Jeff Bridges

CharacterYourselfYouKindLineUp

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

Louis D. Brandeis

InitiativeNeverJudgementSubstitute

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

Judy Sheindlin

DinnerTakeStuffAnymoreLows

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

Joshua Henry

MusicLovedActingBeforeStumbled

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

Janine Benyus

SciencePeopleLookingBetterShells

I started in documentaries. I started alone with a camera. Alone. Totally alone. Shooting, editing short documentaries for a French-Canadian part of CBC. So to deal with the camera alone, to approach reality alone, meant so much. I made a few dozen small documentaries, and that was the birth of a way to approach reality with a camera.

Denis Villeneuve

AloneSmallRealityShortCamera

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

Donald Norman

LearningImpossibleWriteFirstTie

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

Cheryl Hines

LifeMomYouSheRealReal Life

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