Anthony Doerr Quotes

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

Anthony Doerr

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LiveCulturePainReadingFatSkill

The French cook; we open tins.

John Galsworthy

FoodOpenCookFrench

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

Spike Lee

WomanManPeopleBlackYouWhite

I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.

Tracy Lawrence

CareerMy OwnAlwaysOwnCharge

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

Toni Collette

LifeMy LifeMeditationEssential

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LawShameMayRestrainDoes

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Douglas Adams

TruthMeBelieveProveStill

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

Donald Hall

EyesPoetryYouMouthSayMore

My dad taught me, like, no matter what, when I go out and play against these bigger players, just to be myself. I knew that I was good enough and that I had the ability to. I never shy away from anyone, and I don't think anyone should.

Christian Pulisic

GoodMyselfMeThinkEnoughPlay

I love working to push the industry forward.

Columbus Short

LoveForwardPushIndustryWorking

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years.

Wladimir Klitschko

ExperienceLanguageAttentionBody

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

Paul Tsongas

LoveAchievementTogetherPolitical

The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.

Shashi Tharoor

BlackDiscriminationOppressionWho

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