Beah Richards Quotes

#1. The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.

David Souter

#2. Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Beah Richards

#3. Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

Steven Herrick

#4. Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

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#5. What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Margaret Atwood

#6. Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

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#7. Be mindful that the world that you want to live in and that you need to live in needs you to create it; it needs your input. The world needs to hear what you have to say. The last word has not been spoken.

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#8. Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

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#9. For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

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#10. There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

David Bowie

#11. Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Christopher Paolini

#12. I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

Karl Schroeder

#13. There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.

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#14. The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

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#16. When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Beah Richards