Lynn Nottage Quotes

Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines.

Lynn Nottage

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PowerPeopleThinkPowerfulBecome

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

Jessie Ware

ThinkAppreciateNowWantAheadFar

I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.

John Guare

ManBrokenSchoolMeDoingSummer

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

Michael Buble

TimeSuitsWeirdTalkAlwaysRetro

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Steve Lacy

StylePeopleLanguageLearnSharks

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Stephen F. Lynch

SmallAmericanYouGoalTrueClear

Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

TrustAmericaViolenceSocialHow

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Tony Dungy

YourselfSorryBetterFeelYouHow

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

Robert Dallek

AfraidPigsUnitedGoingBayStates

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Ross Kemp

TwoAlwaysAfghanistanWhereverGet

During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

Luis Alberto Urrea

SchoolWhiteSan DiegoWorking-Class

My favourite sport is cheerleading!

Miley Cyrus

FavouriteSport

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Judith Jamison

RacismTalkingYouCreateGoOwn

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