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Benjamin Todd Jealous Quotes

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 18, 1973

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People Care Better You Group Tell

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

Job People Performance Done Disgust

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

Man Me Back Down Cave Savage

While we know, on average, that certain positions experience more repetitive head impacts and are more likely at greater risk for CTE, no position is immune.

Experience Know Risk More Head

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Keep Going Thought Name You Say Why

I never look back, I look forward.

Forward Look Back Never

I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.

Hate Lunch Chocolate Design Dark

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

People Me Champion Look Important

While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.

Happy World Fashion Appreciate Loved

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

Politics Lie People Electoral Makes

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

Anthony Jeselnik

Glasses Hair Face Doing You Through

I like feminine suits with unexpected details.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Suits Details Unexpected Like

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

Father Daughter Child Me Down Sober

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