Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

Richard Ben Cramer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 12, 1950 - January 7, 2013

Topics

GoodKingDinnerYouTableBeing

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Jim Parsons

PastMeActorAlwaysSuccessful

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

John Muir

NatureChangeBetterPlaceGoNeed

My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean.

John J. McLaughlin

PeoplePressureSayMeanPeople Say

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.

John Wycliffe

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So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

Stokely Carmichael

PowerBlackStudentCivil Rights

We always find a way to learn and to get better.

Travis Kalanick

BetterLearnFindWayAlwaysGet

Failure to take note of the fact that the character of twentieth-century humanity differs from that of humanity in the fifteenth century, let alone before and at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, is to sleep through the process of world evolution.

Rudolf Steiner

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There were some that said if you hung in long enough, the world would catch on, and they have.

Roy Clark

WorldEnoughLongYouSaidCatch

I've realised that when fashion is really good and really challenges and takes a risk, it is incredibly artistically powerful. It makes people dream.

Jonathan Anderson

GoodPeopleChallengesFashionDream

I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.

Cole Swindell

TimeWomanMoving OnManPainSong

I've always been about, how do I get my ideas out to the most people?

Boots Riley

PeopleIdeasAlwaysOutGetBeen

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