Terrance Hayes Quotes

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

Terrance Hayes

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LiteratureLikePoets

Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.

Joe Arpaio

ImmigrationPoliticalCongressOut

I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do.

Jennifer Egan

MyselfStartBookThinkGoalNew

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

Matt Mullenweg

LuxuryNowHackingSeemsWebIdea

When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.

Jeff Ross

LightPeopleShineTalkingYouBad

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Jeff Bridges

WorkHomeMyselfHimWhoTakes

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Merry Clayton

MorningBabySisterSingingChurch

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

Steve Case

PeopleComputersProblemsBetter

I think, with my cartoons, the parent-like figures are kind of my own archeypes of parents, and they're taken a little bit from my parents and other people's parents, and parents I have read about, and parents I dreamed about, and parents that I made up.

Roz Chast

ParentsPeopleThinkKindMy OwnUp

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Minna Antrim

WomenQualityMistakeGiftIntuition

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Dick Wolf

LoveBusinessPeopleChanceFail

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

Ashton Eaton

YourselfPushYouHardCompetitors

My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.

Alice Dellal

MusicStyleMyselfPeopleGoPlaces

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