"People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things."

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Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins

Roxane Gay

#People Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.”
“Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of ***** would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to ' push ' drugs on children.”
“I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?”
“I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.”
“One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.”
“Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.”

Source : "Elizabeth Reaser is Still Learning". Interview with Meryl Cates, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 07, 2012.
“A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.”
“I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.”

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