Natasha Trethewey Quotes

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

Growing UpPerceptionGrowingCrime

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Johan Huizinga

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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Maynard James Keenan

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Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.

Jeff Fisher

CatchDropYour

I'm not scared of Bayern Munich.

Toni Kroos

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I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

Mitt Romney

SmallThinkHandsBankingAssets

When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you want to end up? What's your endgame? We try to start from that and work ourselves back.

Judy Smith

WorkStartEndYouBackWant

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

Diego Luna

DayPeopleEvery DayMoviesKind

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

Christina Hendricks

BirthdayPeopleThinkThoughtLook

I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.

Brian Fallon

NightI CanGoBoringRockWhy

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Bryant H. McGill

AcceptanceOpinionThinkAmericaWho

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Brion James

BestBehaviorYouRulesWantSci-Fi

My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.

Anton Corbijn

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