Wesley Morris Quotes

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.

Wesley Morris

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LiveDinnerWorldBlackYouLooks

Through the '80s, nobody cared about Johnny Cash.

Robert Hilburn

NobodyThroughCashAboutJohnny

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.

Steve Erickson

ResponsibilityPeopleStartBecome

I'm blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we're on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Stephen Curry

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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Rita Rudner

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I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

Rupert Friend

ExperienceWarKindUnderstandNever

People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.

Michael Symon

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I'd like young girls to be able to listen to my music and take something positive away from it.

Jorja Smith

PositiveMusicYoungListenTake

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Denis Diderot

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Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

Boris Kodjoe

EyesBestWorldVoiceFaceTurn

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Antonin Scalia

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The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.

Thomas J. Stanley

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