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Thurgood Marshall Quotes

As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it's Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.

Thurgood Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: July 2, 1908 - January 24, 1993

Topics

People Reality Reach Talk Because

I've always been writing.

Max Apple

Writing Always Been

The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.

Robert Gottlieb

Art Dance Early Giants Modern Left

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Life Art Think Try Working About

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

Time Progress People Understanding

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

Rosemary Mahoney

Life Mother Day One Day Without Her

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

Ross Levinsohn

Saying Meetings Remember Late Dead

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

Lucille Ball

Me I Can Know Never Jokes Tell

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.

Jason Wu

Business Beautiful Woman Dress World

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Jonathan Safran Foer

God Time Think Want Way Talk

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

Good Law You Stop Follow First

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

Anne Donovan

Basketball Think Play Height Because

War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II

War Humanity Defeat