Taiye Selasi Quotes

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

Taiye Selasi

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PoliticsPeopleLiteratureIndividual

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

John Oates

CulturePlaceTopTakePassingHis

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.

Robert H. Schuller

GoodHeartHumbleCaringThinkWho

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Jean-Francois Cope

SmileWomanIdentityYouMeetShe

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

Trevor Dunn

StrongPlacesSt. LouisGoingStill

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

StrongPhysicsWithoutRiceIdea

In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show for you and your wife and your friends and the other people who work on the show. It's our little show, and then it goes out into the world, and somebody watches it.

Ronald D. Moore

WorkWifePeopleWorldIsolation

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

Mary Archer

LoveMarriageGroundedRootedOK

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

Moby

WorkGoodYourselfSomeoneYouBad

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

GreatEnvironmentalGoldLongLose

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

Tyler Farr

MeThinkWantFansExpectSongs

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Nicolaus Copernicus

DirectionEarthCenterEverySince

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Mark Haddon

HomeEnoughLongYouTelevisionGo

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