Exaggeratedly Define Quotes & Sayings

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche. — Michael Eric Dyson

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold. — R. Buckminster Fuller

When one man has been under very remarkable obligations to another, with whom he subsequently quarrels, a common sense of decency, as it were, makes of the former a much severer enemy than a mere stranger would be. To account for your own hard-heartedness and ingratitude in such a case, you are bound to prove the other party's crime. It is not that you are selfish, brutal, and angry at the failure of a speculation
no, no
it is that your partner has led you into it by the basest treachery and with the most sinister motives. From a mere sense of consistency, a persecutor is bound to show that the fallen man is a villain
otherwise he, the persecutor, is a wretch himself. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests. — George Meredith

An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and there's nothing now, so why not just save money and kill themselves. — Gordon Klingenschmitt

It's just that, time goes by way too fast. If you're not careful you can let years go by without accomplishing any of the things you thought you'd accomplish. That's my biggest fear. That I'll wake up one day and wonder where it all went. — Reeni Austin

To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue. — Marvin Ammori