Terrance Hayes Quotes

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

Terrance Hayes

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ComputersKnowUnderstandAnything

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Joe Klein

LifeYouOwnTakeLikeYour

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

HeroCalmGeniusDumbStrikeSeldom

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

John Fleming

LeadershipChangeWayNeedOrganized

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

Andrew Wylie

LibraryThinkLiteratureYouSerious

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

Anastasia Griffith

NothingGoingUnnoticedEverywhere

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Robert Mueller

WorldThinkMeetingsKnowSaidJust

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

Anand Mahindra

SeedSurvivalYouTryNeedGot

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

Steven Biko

YourselfFightRoadBlackYouOut

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Robert Burton

FaithGreatIllusionFeelingsWill

I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.

Ron Johnson

GovernmentMoreSameYearsBuiltHe

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

Christian Slater

GreatPeopleMeBabyCareTake Care

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

Wladimir Klitschko

StrengthExperienceI AmMindWin

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