"Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail."

-- James Fallows

#People Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Messages Quotes

“I was physically abused and I retaliated.”
“the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.”
“Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be different from other people if it comes natural and easy being different. Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives. Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural. Then he may understand Shakespeare and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov, Michael Faraday and free imaginations Bringing changes into a world resenting change. He will be lonely enough to have time for the work he knows as his own.”
“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent”
“Seeing is a neglected enterprise.”

Source : "Saul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York's Palette, Dies at 89" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 2013.
“People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them....well it's killing me!”
“Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company”

Source : "Burberry: The Best of British Digital Innovation" by Melanie Hick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.
“This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.”

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