Wesley Morris Quotes

Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we lacked.

Wesley Morris

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There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

Meg Cabot

QueenI AmKingWaitingParentsMe

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

John Oldham

GodAloneMyselfConscienceLord

In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.

Michael J. Anderson

FeelYearFar AwayWashingtonNever

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin

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Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

BelieveNobodyI BelieveCompensation

I have taken my outside-the-box, innovative, and sometimes unorthodox approach to Congress.

Jared Polis

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You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

Bre Pettis

DesignYouCreatingGoYourObject

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

Brene Brown

GoodHomeCourageBestSupportYou

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the dramatic - I don't mean over-the-top. The main thing is never to be boring.

Bryan Batt

LifeDeathCelebrateAestheticActor

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland

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Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.

Peter Falk

LifePoliceMy LifeNeverSameCame

If you want to come fight the good fight to make a difference for people and to try to get the government back on track, where we govern from the middle and not from the extremes, then understand that it's a lonely road, and you're going to have a hard time.

Pete Gallego

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