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Richard Wright Quotes

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960

Topics

Men Brainy Bread Self-Realization

Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.

Today Villain You Back Rise Heroes

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Melissa Etheridge

Love Discipline Humor Love Is Think

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

Job I Am Village Granddaughter First

One of the things that's so interesting when talking to minority founders specifically is that there is really a knowledge gap in understanding what the risk-reward profile is for doing a startup.

Knowledge Interesting Doing Talking

If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them.

Character Someone You Listen Knowing

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

Work Parenting Doing Acting Line

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

Jason Calacanis

Technology Democracy American You

I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy.

History Time Step Think Impact Week

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

Janine di Giovanni

Change Church Said Accept Hard Mass

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

Derek Cianfrance

Family Memories People Sick Die Try

'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.

Good Style Beginning Pilot First

I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.

Bruce Boxleitner

God Believe Fast Season Middle

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