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Glenn Ligon Quotes

I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1960

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Backstage Apollo Harlem Once Met

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

Funny Hope Me Slow You Look

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Jef I. Richards

Future Children Believe Congress Our

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

Success Music Proud Black Something

The third-person or 'objective,' static, reductive models used in most science are important and yield significant results, but they have their limitations.

Science Results Important Limitations

I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.'

Tomorrow Wait End Fall Look Career

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women History Time Men Lawyer Alive

I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Business Time Myself Food People

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

Business You Keep Going Gotta

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

Success Children Writing Truck Think

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

Leadership World America Tyranny Now

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Focus Problems Sheep Look Lost Up

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

People Me Easy Grind Teeth Ground

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