Lena Waithe Quotes

Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.

Lena Waithe

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TimeBlackEnoughLongLeadTake

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

Joe Perry

PeopleThinkMoreAwareActions

I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.

Jo Cox

ActionImpossibleProblemsLongEgg

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.

John C. McGinley

JobNew YorkBackSummerNewRun

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

Robert Jay Lifton

JourneyThoughtHolocaustPersonal

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

Robert Griffin III

FootballDoorFaceLongI CanRun

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

Stanley Hauerwas

LifeI AmMeThinkMeanRecovery

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

Tommy Chong

LifeAmericaCorporationsRuled

I think that, as an actor, you fight so hard to get work for years that when it actually comes, you just are so grateful. I am so happy to get to do what I love.

Rory O'Malley

WorkLoveGratefulFightI AmHappy

Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place.

Mick Ralphs

GreatPeopleUniquePlaceGetSanta

The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.

Josh Duhamel

AppreciateI CanNowSayRight

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

Jarvis Cocker

GreatWarPeopleSpeakImportant

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Chris Noth

GreatPoliticsStoryI CanKnowGet

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