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Alice Walker Quotes

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

People Wish Appearance Fools Foolish

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

Police Walking You Look Striving Up

I'm not homophobic in the slightest. I have lots of gay friends.

Michael Bisping

Friends Gay Homophobic Lots

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

John Sergeant Wise

Man People Me Choice Possible Would

In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe.

Steve Jurvetson

Work People Doing Too Much Want

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Words Present Pleasure Bring Even

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

Success Good Journey Time Me Think

My progression into acting was pretty slow. I was constantly performing in different kinds of small shows. One year I would be in a magic show, the next year in a circus show, then a small play, and then a dance show.

Dance Small Slow Magic Year Acting

I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us.

Change Age Experience Young Three

I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.'

Dance Me Mom Remember You Know

The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.

Achievement You Important Difficult

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

Thought Better Enough Young Write

Intimacy and community buffer stress.

Community Stress Intimacy Buffer

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