Ishmael Reed Quotes

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

Ishmael Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1938

Topics

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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Jerzy Kosinski

TimeI CanLostAlwaysOverNovel

I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I do my art, you know.

Ann Wilson

LifeArtMeYouNewKnow

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

Michael Jai White

MeThinkCookI ThinkAfterNamed

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

Stephen Rodrick

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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Robin Gibb

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Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.

Lorrie Fair

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I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.

Bonnie Hunt

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Each time I have performed in Utah, I had a great time, and the audiences seem to enjoy what I do. The audiences are very warm and very appreciative.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting.

Armand Assante

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Allan Bloom

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There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.

Peter Singer

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We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

Peter Chernin

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