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Issa Rae Quotes

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Issa Rae

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american

Topics

Black Easy First University Web

The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.

John Barrasso

People Decisions Insurance Kind

Anytime you join a show that's been successful, there's a certain responsibility. And a lot of anxiety that, you know, you're bringing the character to life, respecting the show and doing your part. So that you are not the weak link in the chain.

Mekhi Phifer

Life Character Responsibility Anxiety

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.

Merry Clayton

Morning God Time Soul Man Singing

You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.

Steve Erickson

Age Blame Loved You Movies Digital

Some people may look at you almost like a fantasy at times, you know; some people don't think you're real. Because people forget that celebrities are humans too, sometimes.

Rita Ora

People Think You Look Sometimes

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Dick Durbin

Wait Country Fair Flu Line Seniors

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

Constance Wu

You Please Everyone Wrong Never

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

Peter Garrett

Nature Success Words Me More Songs

In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.

Shannon Sharpe

Time Culture Parents Tough Care Our

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

Learn Profit Pleasure Cannot He

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Richard M. Nixon

Change Leader History Great Step

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.

Nolan Bushnell

Culture America Employees Results