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Grace Paley Quotes

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

Grace Paley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007

Topics

Opportunity Relationship People World

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

Joel Silver

Responsibility Unique Fresh Original

We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.

Robert Picardo

College Generation Enough Luxury Go

But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.

Roone Arledge

People World Hell Doing You Place

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Ronnie Spector

Music Care Career Professional First

I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

Michele Bachmann

People Strong Think American Someone

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

Experience Me Alien Real Stories

YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed.

Jay Samit

Failure Music Service Ideas Succeed

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

Dikembe Mutombo

Basketball Year Said Want Africa

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Drew Barrymore

Morning Service Cool Door Hotel Pig

For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.

Cheech Marin

People Proud Place Come Most Part

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Craig Bruce

Funny Most How Activists

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

Bobby Knight

Time Humor Coaching Sense Of Humor