"So I started to relax and would work on my act eight hours a day, sitting at a desk writing at my grandmother's house, and I would put on Richard Pryor Live on Long Beach and would play it like a loop and think and write"

-- George Lopez

#Beach Quotes #Writing Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.”
“Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.”
“Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.”

Source : Eric Williams (2014). “The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield
“Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.”
“The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.”

Source : "Viewers 'Idol'-ize This Saucy Search for a Superstar". USA Today, June 18, 2002.
“While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.”

Source : Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick
“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.”
“When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.”

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