bell hooks Quotes

All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CommitmentMenProblemFallSeem

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Johan Huizinga

CultureStrivingSecondElement

My parents taught us it's important to give back.

Jenna Bush

ParentsBackImportantUsGive

Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop, and you can listen for four hours, five hours, six hours, and then you are like in his mystical hands of his music. He's such a great poet of music.

Andris Nelsons

MusicGreatWorldHandsYouStop

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

John Major

FatherMotherLate1940sBabies

An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.

Jed S. Rakoff

PowerPurposeColdRestFactsMoral

The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

Amber Le Bon

LifeWeekKnowWillNeverNext

The Gulf Waterkeepers are our first line of defense against the BP oil disaster. Their incredible knowledge of the marshes, wetlands, beaches and inner-coastal waters make them invaluable first responders. Their commitment makes them critical and effective community leaders.

Sophie B. Hawkins

KnowledgeCommunityCommitmentOil

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

Steven Pinker

KnowledgeHistoryWorldBoundaries

I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really.

Mike Nichols

LifeChangeGodWinningHotelBack

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

Michelle Williams

LifeWorkMindTalkingPersonal

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

Dickey Betts

SchoolMeGuitarYouDoneMean

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

Anthony Michael Hall

ThinkWholeFavoriteEastEast Coast

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