Issa Rae Quotes

I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.

Issa Rae

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LiveTimeCulturePeopleWantSame

I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

John C. Reilly

TimeDayVideo GamesGameEndYou

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.

Jeremy Grantham

TimePeopleBrainBelieveWantTrue

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew Motion

MomentMeTrueTryWritePoet

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

Robert Hass

WorkEnoughLongGoMoreMarket

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Anna Deavere Smith

I AmPeoplePersonalBecomeBecause

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

Stephen Colbert

GriefThinkInterestingYouSize

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched.

Stone Gossard

NatureLivePeopleCityMovingFeel

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Ronald Reagan

FaithTimeFreeDoneSayWill

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

Mary J. Blige

FamilyTwoScaryYearsOnlyVery

I prefer to watch people.

Michael Winterbottom

PeopleWatchPrefer

I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of 2016 and in the aftermath of the election.

Michiko Kakutani

ElectionNewsAlwaysUpInterest

People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.

Derrick Rose

MyselfPeopleMeThinkToo MuchGo

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