Ben Rhodes Quotes

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

Ben Rhodes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 14, 1977

Topics

FamilyMorningSeeSomethingSyria

I became a children's author by accident.

Jerry Spinelli

ChildrenAccidentAuthorBecame

If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.

Andrew Whitworth

HellYouPlayYearsLeftSure

Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

AgeMyselfImaginationManMeColor

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

John Taylor Gatto

WorkHomeTeacherSchoolKidSystem

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

Sondra Radvanovsky

LoveLivePeopleWorldAmerican

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

Rufus Sewell

VanityActingPersonActorHuman

Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture.

Mike Pompeo

InnovationScienceFoodSafetyCore

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Michelle Bachelet

StereotypesKindLike

Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.

Miriam Margolyes

PeopleBlackKnowUnfortunatelyMany

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

Loni Love

YouGoConnectedSoundMeanMail

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Lord Byron

YourselfPeopleCareYouKnowFame

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

Diane Paulus

PersonalUpOwnCaughtYourBaggage

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