Paul Beatty quote: "Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed."

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
PAUL BEATTY

He needed our help, and I enjoy working with him. Everybody kind of pitches in when things get tough...
PAUL BEATTY

We can all see what's happening in real time.
PAUL BEATTY

In 7.81 square miles of vaunted black community, the 850 square feet of Dum Dum Donuts was the only ...
PAUL BEATTY

If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of ...
PAUL BEATTY

Daddy never believed in closure. He said it was a false psychological concept. Something invented by...
PAUL BEATTY

And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was inven...
PAUL BEATTY

Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people a...
PAUL BEATTY

The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus."

"Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?"

PAUL BEATTY

Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between �...
PAUL BEATTY

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done somet...
PAUL BEATTY

I seriously doubt that some slave ship ancestor, in those idle moments between being raped and beate...
PAUL BEATTY

For the kids at Chaff, the annual Career Day, held about two weeks before the summer break, was enou...
PAUL BEATTY

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
WARREN BEATTY

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accom...
WARREN BEATTY

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
WARREN BEATTY

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need...
WARREN BEATTY

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
WARREN BEATTY

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
WARREN BEATTY

Government is not show business.
WARREN BEATTY

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and ...
WARREN BEATTY

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who ...
WARREN BEATTY

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small a...
WARREN BEATTY

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, ...
WARREN BEATTY

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disp...
WARREN BEATTY

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
WARREN BEATTY

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
WARREN BEATTY

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of ...
WARREN BEATTY

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody...
WARREN BEATTY

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children c...
WARREN BEATTY

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is w...
WARREN BEATTY

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to unde...
WARREN BEATTY

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
WARREN BEATTY

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're...
WARREN BEATTY

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of ...
WARREN BEATTY

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't...
WARREN BEATTY

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
WARREN BEATTY

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
WARREN BEATTY

I have to adjust my sleep schedule and basically know that during the day if I need to take a nap or...
ANDREA BEATTY

When we close at 12:15 [a.m.], having to walk to your car and being scared or having to worry that s...
ANDREA BEATTY

After 9 [p.m.], the reference librarian leaves, so we have to kind of take on that responsibility ov...
ANDREA BEATTY

[When] working at night, you have to do your work, but the counter is slow, so you get to do your ho...
ANDREA BEATTY

I think too often we sit back and wonder whatever happens to those cases we hear about in the paper,...
BOB BEATTY

It's certainly a good indication that this race may be more interesting than anybody thought.
BOB BEATTY

We sure as heck had our chances. I felt like we could coach harder and the older kids could do a bet...
BOB BEATTY

Manual has a tremendous amount of speed, and we have a great deal of respect for that. We're looking...
BOB BEATTY

They were a better football team than we were in every phase of the game tonight. I don't know what ...
BOB BEATTY

Those other states are not as easy to caricature. They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.
BOB BEATTY

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.
BOB BEATTY

It is pretty bizarre to see that many girls from the same class choose to go to the same college, .....
BOB BEATTY

Those other states are not as easy to caricature, ... They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.
BOB BEATTY

I was very flattered ... but as long as the Trinity community will have me, I'll consider this my ho...
BOB BEATTY

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
WARREN BEATTY

We decided we could go ahead and be proactive.
WAYNE BEATTY

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can ser...
WARREN BEATTY

I don't know if I will run, ... interestingly, politically, you have a kind of tactical advantage wh...
WARREN BEATTY

Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.
ROBERT BEATTY

You and your tireless organizing have stood up to the arrogance of power and money and bullying and ...
WARREN BEATTY

I would say the biggest changes -- it has caused me to get into the present tense, try not to go too...
WARREN BEATTY

With our coaches, they make sure you're 100 percent honed into practice,
CHRIS BEATTY

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.
NED BEATTY

Schools have to be viewed within communities as necessary services. Students are expected to attend,...
WAYNE BEATTY

If he thinks there are not two Americas, I call on him to talk with the 170 nurses you've sent to Ne...
WARREN BEATTY

I've always preferred not to run for public office, and I still do, ... Run, Warren, run!
WARREN BEATTY

I'm not calling him a crackpot, ... I'm calling him an old-fashioned politician.
WARREN BEATTY

Arnold says he's not in this for the short run. We have to show him - neither are we!
WARREN BEATTY

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't hav...
WARREN BEATTY

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.
NED BEATTY

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they ...
WARREN BEATTY

To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process, ... It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislatur...
WARREN BEATTY

He will probably be very flexible now. He'll be very adroit in his attempt to win popularity.
WARREN BEATTY

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play
WARREN BEATTY

The problem is having the fox in charge of the henhouse.
DAVID BEATTY

[In an acceptance litany --] thank you for encouraging me for using my voice in public affairs ... I...
WARREN BEATTY

We have an anthology of articles written by a team of authors.
JOHN BEATTY

If you put a conservative in as insurance commissioner, I have no idea what he might do. You're havi...
BOB BEATTY

It's no secret that I am a liberal Democrat, ... I have some very strong feelings, the most importan...
WARREN BEATTY

Nothing about Gary seemed out of the ordinary. Nothing showed any flashing red lights. From everythi...
BILL BEATTY

Stunned. That's the only word that comes to mind.
BILL BEATTY

We didn't hit the ball tonight very well either. We're a better hitting team than that. We're going ...
BILL BEATTY

This was about an identical performance to the one we had against (Houston County). To come out and ...
BILL BEATTY

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer
WARREN BEATTY

I grew up as a fairly puritanical, Protestant, football-playing boy in Virginia. I don't know that I...
WARREN BEATTY

Government is not show business,
WARREN BEATTY

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake,
WARREN BEATTY

I knew Reagan and I was a friend of Reagan. I disagreed with many, many things that Reagan stood for...
WARREN BEATTY

I know you have asked and I've turned you down.
WARREN BEATTY

It's something that you never take off the table; that would be sort of a demonstration of poor citi...
WARREN BEATTY

Most of us were so shocked by his death because we figured if anyone had it wired to live to 110 or ...
WARREN BEATTY

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giv...
WARREN BEATTY

so I can't say enough positive things about Kazan. I would leave it at that. I love the man.
WARREN BEATTY

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the ques...
WARREN BEATTY

We may just have some fun,
WARREN BEATTY

I'm not sure two movie stars can run - not even here.
WARREN BEATTY

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Re...
WARREN BEATTY

In the disparity of our prosperity, someone must rise to honor the historic mission of the Democrati...
WARREN BEATTY

The problem is having the fox in charge of the henhouse,
DAVID BEATTY

It was hysterical. It was very entertaining. We had a wonderful time. It was our first time ? we hav...
DENISE BEATTY

But carbohydrates are the body's preferred source of energy. And as a source of carbohydrates, potat...
DENISE BEATTY

The biggest educational hurdle when we do food records with clients is that they don't classify pota...
DENISE BEATTY

[Income trusts] are very different creatures, ... and very much understudied and underappreciated in...
DAVID BEATTY

I don't believe governance has been an issue in the conversion process, ... The underwriters and the...
DAVID BEATTY

This high rate of child victims is behind the heightened concern and the growing number of states pa...
DAVID BEATTY

If you don't get the audit committee piece right, you have kind of missed.
DAVID BEATTY

I still run into people who say to me, 'What is all this governance stuff? It just gets in the way,'
DAVID BEATTY

As a matter of kind of religious ideology, the coalition members are unanimous in their support of o...
DAVID BEATTY

I think that's deeply disturbing. They've just got to do better.
DAVID BEATTY

(Local) palliative care is recognized throughout North America as a model to follow. We're all going...
DAVID BEATTY

It touches everyone and it's a great community project,
DAVID BEATTY

When we think about economic loss and insured loss, there are few events that rival Katrina. The Wor...
KYLE BEATTY

The amount of oil that can be produced each day can actually be insured. Katrina is forecast to make...
KYLE BEATTY

The fact that it is fast moving would limit things like damage from rain fall. But the fast movement...
KYLE BEATTY

We have almost a third of the state's (insured property) exposure from Miami to Palm Beach. Also if ...
KYLE BEATTY

The terrorist is not going to be able to do some of their casing and rehearsal activity without bein...
JEFFREY BEATTY

They know what looks right and what looks wrong. All we can do is ask them to use their judgment.
JEFFREY BEATTY

Our team understands that we're going to be facing great competition from all over the state. If we ...
MATT BEATTY

We can take this event to the community. It is a great way to let people know what we do.
SARAH BEATTY

Her hand accidentally brushed up against his chest. She froze. His breathing remained steady and reg...
CATE CAMPBELL BEATTY

Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.
JAMIE LYN BEATTY

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL

Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM

I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE

A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING

Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX

Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed.

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Sometimes I wish Darth Vader had been my father. I'd have been better off. I wouldn't have a right hand, but I definitely wouldn't have the burden of being black and constantly having to decide when and if I gave a shit about it. Plus, I'm left-handed.

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