Edwidge Danticat Quotes

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

Edwidge Danticat

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: haitian
  • Birth: January 19, 1969

Topics

MomentPeopleDoingYouCreatingGo

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Jo Brand

BestPlanHappenThingsUsMost

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

Michael Graves

GoodDayMindDesignEvery DayUsed

There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success.

Stacy Keach

SuccessSonGreatMyselfHappyWay

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

Stone Gossard

PeopleProcessDecisionsListenBand

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Robert Burns

DisappointmentSuspenseWorseThan

With the House of Marley, over the years we've been trying to establish ourselves not just as a brand but a lifestyle movement. So it's been a challenge to get people to adapt to our new way of thinking. We're all about sustainability, the natural life, the eco life.

Rohan Marley

LifeChallengePeopleBrandThinking

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

RuPaul

LifeThinkHypocrisyLivingMundane

No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Russell M. Nelson

LoveChildrenGoPrivilegeLeadOwn

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

FreedomProblemsFightingBagTrying

There's a different kind of attitude when you come from Western New York. You work for everything you get, and nothing's really handed to you... You realize good work turns to good things, and that's the edge I always came up with.

Luke Harper

WorkGoodAttitudeNew YorkYouNew

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

Debi Gliori

AttitudeHeroMeVillainBookWolf

Of course, I do everything for money.

Christopher Hitchens

MoneyEverythingCourse

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