George Pelecanos Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it.

George Pelecanos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1957

Topics

BeautyManPoetryBlackWashington

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

Jim Coleman

GreaterWorkingThanSumParts

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

John Lautner

ArtArchitectureMeAliveDead

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.

Robert Gottlieb

GreatNonfictionMemoirWhoThose

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

Angus Deaton

MoneyGovernmentPeopleThinkYou

I have learned, as I get older, just to be who I am.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

I AmI Have LearnedGetJustOlder

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

Song Hye-kyo

ConfidenceAchievementYouActingGo

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

Stewart Butterfield

LoveHomeLiveNew YorkChooseNew

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Shooter Jennings

FamilyLoveGreatCultureMeCool

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

Robert Bourassa

MindBackKnowDifficultMayPublic

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

Romola Garai

PeopleBabyLanguageGenerationNew

SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it.

Mary H.K. Choi

GratefulFoundFeelsGross

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Michael Specter

ValuePeopleFactsIgnoreNothing

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