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Kevin Young Quotes

At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would be no American music without black folks, there would be very little of our American language.

Kevin Young

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Music Black Language American Ignore

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

Jesse Spencer

Fire Training Chicago Some Did

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

John Lanchester

Finance Financial American Gambling

Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Fear Think You Go Timing Way

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

John Stuart Mill

Men Act Beliefs Majority Few

It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

Amy Cuddy

Power People Competence Warmth Often

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

Michel Patini

You Know Three Vice Days Role

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

Luis Fortuno

Freedom Government People Shine Way

I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Light Shadow Buildings Play Glass

On the second half of 'Under Pressure,' I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.

Logic

Family Father Brother Sister Song

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

Joseph Stiglitz

Politics Economics Better Seeing

If I really don't feel like it, I'll change my plans and choose to be with my baby. If that moment makes me happier, I think that's more important.

Doutzen Kroes

Change Moment Me Baby Think Choose

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Arnold H. Glasow

Laughter Side Effects