David Levering Lewis Quotes

There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'

David Levering Lewis

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I am always trying to write.

Joanna Newsom

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For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

Jeffrey Wright

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenParentsSugarWillCandy

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

Angus Young

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I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Stephen Lewis

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Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

Tony Campolo

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I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.

Roger Ailes

GoodTimeFoodFindKindPossible

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

Matt Bevin

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Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities.

Mike Davidson

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American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. Of course, we recognize that Egypt has gone through a dramatic change in government. And what their status will be going forward in terms of the relationship with our nation is something which which I'm sure will be developing over time.

Mitt Romney

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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

Juice Wrld

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