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Related Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it. RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I'm going to talk about overt versus covert. We won those battles. JOHN JORDAN TIM GRIFFIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ABERJHANI PENN JILLETTE I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detr... ERIC HOLDER racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only raci... MICHELLE ALEXANDER If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll jus... JAMES CARVILLE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about ... BALTHUS There is a dangerous confluence between the industry and the ideologues of the right. These groups c... BILL PATTERSON Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say ab... BALTHUS AMIT ABRAHAM CRAIG GROESCHEL Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin ... DAK PRESCOTT To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial ... ERIC HOLDER They wouldn't meet our standards for what we publish in the paper. We have standards about language,... LEONARD DOWNIE When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forge... IAN RANKIN One-third of all African Americans in the United States live under conditions of intense racial segr... DOUGLAS MASSEY GRAHAM GREENE BOB BECKEL I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken aw... PAT OLIPHANT They know what's at stake. They know what we're all about, so we never have to talk about the winnin... ALLEN ROSSI We are the primary beneficiaries of racial privilege. It means something for a group of white people... ERICA MERCKER When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing... JOE ARPAIO The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as "Give your life to ... IAIN H. MURRAY I am sure 'crocodilian' in the language of crocodiles is replaced by 'humanilian.' QAMAR KHAN QURESHI ROBERT M. PIRSIG How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well... ELENA FERRANTE ROBERT KENNEDY DONALD MILLER POPE BENEDICT XVI ALICE WALKER ALICE WALKER I don't pay much attention to what the Fed says because I don't know what they mean when they say it... JEFFREY SAUT STOKELY CARMICHAEL Someone heard about our computer being stolen and they replaced it. DANYELL OLTEAN Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any pl... JASON BABIN THICH NHAT HANH A million dollars doesn't get you that kind of street talk that you're looking for in terms of publi... BURKE STINSON My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as p... JANE CAMPION The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of... ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. Everyone likes to talk about that stuff, ... I'll leave that up to you. You can figure it out. MANNY FERNANDEZ ALVEDA KING SUNDAY ADELAJA PHILIP ROTH PHILIP ROTH My visit went pretty good. I was real impressed by the new coaching staff, and all of the things the... AARON WILLIAMS When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, thi... ABIGAIL DISNEY By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond &... MANNING MARABLE It's driven by the fact that they can't talk about their current products, because everybody knows t... HENRI RICHARD Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and... ERIC HOLDER RICHARD FEYNMAN It's easy to forget about it because it's so long ago that people are desensitized by it, and they h... FELICIA FENG We have to change our behavior, ... We drink too much, smoke too much, eat the wrong foods and dont ... ROBERT ATWELL We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did n... HANAN ASHRAWI People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they ... ERIC HOLDER Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ... JUDY BLUME TIM WISE It's racial. I figured they were going to get away with it because they were white and it is at Duke... MIKE JONES Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers... ANUJ SOMANY ABHIJIT NASKAR SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON All his family and friends are devastated, ... If anybody knows anything, they have got to talk to p... ANTHONY WALKER Phoenix temperatures have been going up because of the urbanization. Previously vegetative surfaces ... ALAN THORPE Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don'... DAKOTA FANNING For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou... J. D. VANCE Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence,... CHRIS WITTY SHANNON L. ALDER We hear all the time when we go up to the Hill and start talking to congressmen that they don't hear... VICKI ARROYO Students are mostly put off by the sound of opera. But they are more open to it once we talk about w... DAN GRABLE MARGARET SPELLINGS SAM RAYBURN Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 If those who say that we mus... GAVIN REID CORNEL WEST The inference is that we replaced the auditor because they were issuing warnings. That's totally inc... WILLIAM WEBSTER PABLO PICASSO NICK HORNBY (Ready Kids) is what the American Red Cross has been saying all along in terms of being prepared. In... CRAIG VERLEY FRED KOREMATSU They did overt and covert surveillance. In some cases, they wanted them to know they were being foll... DENNY GRIFFIN ABRAHAM VERGHESE This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to ... DAVID POWER A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY He's throwing the ball great. We just can't go to him when it means something yet. I have to talk to... DUSTY BAKER why should we feel ashamed of what has happend ,,,, we didnt ask for it ,,, are abuser forced it upo... GRACE L.M. MONTGOMERY If someone wants to call up and talk about poker I'll talk about it. If it's out there we cover it. DRAKE ANDERSON BRUNO MARS It's frustrating that innocent families are torn apart because of these types of campaigns. It seems... AHMED BEDIER I go to ceremonies and see people talk about traditional ways while they pass out soda and store bou... JUSTIN WILLEY ROY AYERS MARGARET SPELLINGS HIDEKI TOJO WALTER KIRN BROCK OSWEILER If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ... BILL BURTON I don't even like to talk about this business about an ethnic and racial balancing act. I think it's... ADOLFO JR
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PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy! PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje... PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe... PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now. PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round. PATRICIA SUN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus... PATRICIA SUN Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin... PATRICIA SUN We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o... PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig... PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h... PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out.... PATRICIA SUN I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta... 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PATRICIA RIGGEN If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release. PATRICIA RIGGEN I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin... PATRICIA RIGGEN I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte... PATRICIA RIGGEN The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments... PATRICIA RIGGEN I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t... PATRICIA RIGGEN I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ... PATRICIA RIGGEN It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju... PATRICIA RIGGEN I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l... PATRICIA RIGGEN Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes. PATRICIA RIGGEN When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all... PATRICIA RIGGEN It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman. PATRICIA RIGGEN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w... PATRICIA RICHARDSON Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w... PATRICIA RICHARDSON Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic. PATRICIA RICHARDSON Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h... PATRICIA RICHARDSON It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these i... PATRICIA RICHARDSON You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend. PATRICIA RICHARDSON I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the... PATRICIA RICHARDSON People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me. PATRICIA RICHARDSON When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone&... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody'... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why. 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I constantly have to fight being scatte... PATRICIA RICHARDSON Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whol... PATRICIA RICHARDSON Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami... PATRICIA RAE One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace... PATRICIA RAE You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo... PATRICIA RAE I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! PATRICIA POLACCO My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ... PATRICIA POLACCO I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see won... PATRICIA POLACCO I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. PATRICIA POLACCO I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare... PATRICIA POLACCO I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books... PATRICIA POLACCO Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist. PATRICIA POLACCO My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relat... PATRICIA POLACCO Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergart... PATRICIA POLACCO When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories. PATRICIA POLACCO My stories are fundamentally about the love of family. PATRICIA POLACCO My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings. PATRICIA POLACCO When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur... PATRICIA POLACCO I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it... PATRICIA POLACCO Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed. PATRICIA POLACCO Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o... PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ... PATRICIA POLACCO What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ... PATRICIA POLACCO I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he... PATRICIA POLACCO My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha... PATRICIA POLACCO I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin... PATRICIA POLACCO Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older. PATRICIA POLACCO Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful. PATRICIA NORRIS I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha... PATRICIA NORRIS As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ... PATRICIA NORRIS PATRICIA NEAL PATRICIA NEAL Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew... PATRICIA MILLETT What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom... PATRICIA MILLETT I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi... PATRICIA MILLETT I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou... PATRICIA MILLETT I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and... PATRICIA MILLETT While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi... PATRICIA MILLETT I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie... PATRICIA MILLETT PATRICIA MCCORMICK PATRICIA MCCORMICK PATRICIA MCCORMICK High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl... PATRICIA MARX New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce. PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing. PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ... PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo... PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ... PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is. PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se... PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality. PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed. PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv... PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ... PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl... PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char... PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ... PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ... PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec... PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers. PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything. PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career. PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i... PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,... PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible. PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent... PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac... PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would... PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ... PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall... PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney... PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ... PATRICIA IRELAND I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m... PATRICIA IRELAND Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. PATRICIA IRELAND My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. T... PATRICIA IRELAND I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to lead... PATRICIA IRELAND The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statis... PATRICIA IRELAND Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of pri... PATRICIA IRELAND I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence agai... PATRICIA IRELAND Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight ... PATRICIA IRELAND
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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say. 
Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about... 
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ... 
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather d... 
What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These g... 
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African ... 
I shouldn´t be talking about the details that I´m in negotiations with the White House and the (Ca... 
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of r... 
What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wis... 
Guys get... benched, replaced. They get injured; another guy comes in and becomes the starter. That ... 
Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people. 
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood ... 
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W... 
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. 
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ... 