Plumped Durant Quotes & Sayings

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before. — Umberto Eco

I'm interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I'm very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then it's not such an arduous process to revisit, and exploration can be a bit more cryptic. — Shane Carruth

Somewhere along the line, I started thinking that if I just got through this bad experience, this bad day, that tomorrow I'd have something better, brighter, newer.
I still believe that. I still believe that there's something good out there for me. I just have to keep going until my time comes. — Erin Watt

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it. — Janet Jackson

Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [ ... ] She's part of this city. Do you see? I mean, really part of it. You hurt her, you - hurt all of this. — Christopher Fowler

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. — Michael Ignatieff

By 1945, a growing number of whites in the North had concluded that the Jim Crow system would have to be modified, if not entirely overthrown. This consensus was due to a number of factors, including the increased political power of blacks due to migration to the North and the growing membership and influence of the NAACP, particularly its highly successful legal campaign challenging Jim Crow laws in federal courts. Far more important in the view of many scholars, however, is the influence of World War II. The blatant contradiction between the country's opposition to the crimes of the Third Reich against European Jews and the continued existence of a racial caste system in the United States was proving embarrassing, severely damaging the nation's credibility as leader of the "free world. — Michelle Alexander

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight. — Michael Arrington

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. — Aesop

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say. — Ursula Burns

I don't really collect guitars. — Roger McGuinn

Humor is the good natured side of a truth. — Mark Twain

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground. — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox. — Angela Kinsey

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn ... — Ian Shoales