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Rashid Johnson Quotes

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

Rashid Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

Character Black Intellectual Way

With 'Interpreter,' I didn't know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Work Writing Book Know Become Going

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Matt Groening

Myself Research Look Back Television

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

John Shelton Reed

Hate End Try Explain Up Hang

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

Amanda Seyfried

Myself College Looking Never Right

I try to seize every opportunity I can.

Rob Dyrdek

Opportunity I Can Try Seize Every

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan

Age Walls Information Borders Modern

We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.

Mike Gallagher

People Lawyers Wrong Pay See Expect

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Jason Isaacs

Liar Think Now Always Paid Get

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Power Farm More Reason Industry

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

Work Alone Time Think Need Things

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

Cleo Moore

Art Acting Anything Fine Art Fine

I can be quite noisy and robust in the morning.

Boy George

Morning I Can Quite Noisy Robust