Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Hagee

FocusResourcesEndeavorMastery

I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.

Jeffrey Wright

FootballSchoolMeHigh SchoolPlay

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ObedienceRightForceOnlyPowers

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

Amanda Lindhout

WomenMenSameMentalitySouthern

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

Toni Tennille

MenMeOldOutStonesGet

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Douglas Coupland

LiveHistoryUnderstandChangesTool

Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board.

Chris Collins

HealthDayEthicsDoorDoneClean

I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

Christian Camargo

YouOthersLikeOrlandoPlayed

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

Brian Azzarello

MeThinkFlawsDefineUsJust

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

Brad Sherman

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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

FearAgeHeartLiarBetterYoung

I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.

Marissa Mayer

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