Richard Louv Quotes

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

Richard Louv

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NatureCommunityParentsBlameHelp

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

Jesmyn Ward

CommunityPeopleClassPoorWrite

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

GreatMeBetterTalkingYouWant

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

Robert Rodriguez

FamousRunWayHotQuickOut

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.

Michael Eric Dyson

TimeCreativeSpiritualBlackGenius

Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?

Stacey D'Erasmo

LifeSomeoneYouUnderstandOutHer

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.

Steve-O

GreatMeCameraDownSkateboarding

As long as I have beaches, some good friends around me, it's 75 degrees and sunny, I'm good.

Rob Gronkowski

GoodMeFriendsLongGood Friends

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

Michael Nutter

SuccessOpportunityPeopleMeBetter

I'm not gonna do the same album over and over and over again.

Logic

SameOverAgainAlbumGonna

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

Richard Sherman

GoodGood PersonYouLookBadKnow

One is only susceptible to lobbying if they're weak and they trust what an individual tells them without verification.

Richard Burr

TrustWeakWithoutIndividualOnly

When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.

Marilynne Robinson

EyesWritingSomeoneSeeingI Can

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