White Quotes - Page 13

• I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Country, Believe, Reality

  "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.

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• I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to the White House.

  Emeril Lagasse

  House, President, Actresses

  "Emeril Lagasse on Julia Child and the time Frank Sinatra stole his silverware". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2016.

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• It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, White Man, Racism

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

  Junot Diaz

  Who I Am, People, Racist

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino accent. I figured that I had to talk white and talk black at the same time, like Charlie Rose and Dr. Dre. If I can talk white and black then no one is ever going to think that I'm "illegal."

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  Thinking, Rose, Black

  "A Minute With: Filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas on being 'undocumented'". Interview with Eric Kelsey, www.reuters.com. June 25, 2014.

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• Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

  Mike Cooley

  Gun, House, Flying

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

  Roland Emmerich

  House, Independence, Done

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White].

  Paula White

  Country, Years, Church

  Source: culteducation.com

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• [Randy white] was such a huge part of my foundation and who I would become in God - from covering me - when you talked about being sexually abused and not having value for yourself - God so used Randy to cover me with unconditional love. And he saw something in me that I couldn't see in myself.

  Paula White

  Unconditional Love, Foundation, Covering

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Personally, having, you know, lived and worked in the White House, having been a senator, having been Secretary of State, there has traditionally been a great pool of very talented, hard-working people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Work, People, House

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Ohio, you're too white, too many white people to be in any way meaningful in a presidential election.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Meaningful, Ohio, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No Republicans won the White House since the "Jurassic" age without winning Ohio. But for the Democrats, it doesn't matter.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Ohio, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

  Mike Pence

  Men, African American, Police

  Source: www.politico.com

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• What Hillary Clinton doesn't say is that tens of thousands of people that are unbelievably happy and that love me. I'll give you an example. We're just opening up on Pennsylvania Avenue right next to the White House, so if I don't get there one way, I'm going to get to Pennsylvania Avenue another.We're opening the Old Post Office. Under budget, ahead of schedule, saved tremendous money. I'm a year ahead of schedule. And that's what this country should be doing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Years, Opening Up

  Source: time.com

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• There is much romanticism about Formula One of the past. Today it has to be more of a family sport, not less. It is a fixture in the Sunday afternoon TV programmes, and probably flamboyance - those white silk suits and devil-may-care attitudes - would be outworn attributes today.

  Martin Sorrell

  Sports, Attitude, Sunday

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'

  Norman Lear

  Kids, Race, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Office, House

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Years, House

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

  Bryan Cranston

  Teacher, Cancer, School

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

  Bryan Cranston

  Dream, Ideas, Soul

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Thinking, Ku Klux Klan

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.

  Amos Oz

  Black And White, Simple, Tragedy

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

  Mark Shields

  Class, America, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

  Bill Burr

  Blue, Cities, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Reading, Moon, Desire

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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