bell hooks Quotes

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1952

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Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

Joel Hodgson

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It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

Melvyn Bragg

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The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.

Spike Milligan

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The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

Michele Lee

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If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Martin Scorsese

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I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible.

Lucy Dacus

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In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.

Joni Ernst

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Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

David Small

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In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

Chuck Mangione

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I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

William Hurt

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I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Peter Sarsgaard

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A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

Seamus Heaney

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