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August Wilson Quotes

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: April 27, 1945 - October 2, 2005

Topics

Life Morning School World Book Go

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

Television Anchor Days Being Cable

I'm surprised when the ball doesn't go into the hoop. I think I should make every shot.

Think Go Ball Hoop Surprised Shot

What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

Work Finance Support Details Finding

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Savings Inflation Your

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams Age Old Age Youth Look Old

I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.

Sonny Bill Williams

Me Stupid Someone Look Down Double

I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.

Travis Kalanick

Never Taxi Been Drivers Derogatory

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

Best People Laugh Ownership You Go

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

Spark Meaning Divine Things Christ

I'm not too unintelligent.

Too Unintelligent

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

Game Black Assumptions You Place

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Money Rich Wiser Belief Poor Take

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