Duranodic Brown Quotes & Sayings

In those days, this was years for the sputnik thing, it was customary to downgrade the Russians' science. People who know something about those things didn't make that mistake. But at the level of Time magazine the joke was how they copied everything and claimed it for their own. Well, of course the corollary of that is that it's our bomb they have and that means we were betrayed. After the war our whole foreign policy depended on our having the bomb and the Soviets not having it. It was a terrible miscalculation. It militarized the world. And when they got it the only alternative to admitting our bankruptcy of leadership and national vision was to find conspiracies. It was one or the other. — E.L. Doctorow

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. — Willem Dafoe

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela

There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life. — Claudia Rankine

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell

She made a suck-bad prisoner of war wanting to sleep with the enemy.' (Abbie) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. — Robert C. Solomon

... it's not possible to truly become desensitized or accustomed to discrimination. It's something one endures. — Mary Lindsey