bell hooks Quotes

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

bell hooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Joel Osteen

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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

John Hawkes

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It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.

John Niven

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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

Stephen Hunter

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You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Robin Wright

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I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

Robert Vaughn

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My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

Ronan Farrow

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It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

Ronnie Corbett

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When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.

Juhi Chawla

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I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

Jay Asher

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I'm not necessarily opposed to greater American involvement. But if that's the way the Mexican government wants to go, it needs to come clean about it. Just look at what we learned from Iraq. Secrecy led to malfeasance. It led to corrupt contracting.

Denise Dresser

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