“You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you're not going to give her the same dress you'd give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayGivingLooksDifferentSpeakLinesDesignColorClothesDressesCompareHomeworkDifferent Colors Author:Bruce Vilanch
“You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.” WayLooksSelfStuffColorConsciousAccessVideoIronic80sSelf ConsciousFilters Author:Alan Palomo
“You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.” IfsWayNeedsEyePleasureTalentColorEasierEnjoyedKnitters Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.” WayChildrenBookUsedWeekColorLettersTitlesLinksRepresentingAlphabetVictorianLetters Of The AlphabetUntimely Death Author:Sue Grafton
“There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for all women in the Hollywood game. It's just slim pickings, and a very challenging time for us. I think that's why more of us need to work our way behind the camera in order to create roles that really illuminate who women are. We still have room for growth in that area, without a doubt.” ThinkingWayNeedsStillsEnoughOrderGamesGrowthChallengesRoomsBehindsRolesCasesDoubtColorAreasHollywoodCamerasAfrican AmericanSlimAmerican WomanAfrican American WomenChallenging Times Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsEndsHelpingLanguageIdentityColorSolutionsBasesVariousTheoretical Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.” PeopleMenWayFirstsSaidEndsBeautifulCultureWhiteTakenJourneyColorHe ManIndiaCollectionsShadeVegetablesFascinatedFabricPoorestDelhiVaranasi Author:Donna Karan
“I think it doesn't matter what color you are. Everybody is getting the - getting the stick, and I'm sure Trump feels the same way.” ThinkingWayFeelsMatterColorTrumpSticks Author:Joe Arpaio
“For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLittlesLongHappensUsedBlackPiecesMediaStupidColorLike YouPeriodsNewsMassHip HopPopsRapTricksHipsHopsCoveredBlack PeopleCrapBad NewsLong Periods Of TimeRap Music Author:Chuck D
“Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.” PeopleIfsWayShouldDifferentColorEuropeTechniqueMediumsDifferent WaysChefDifferent PeoplesSteakOmelets Author:Wolfgang Puck
“A simple way to make sure that you are getting a balanced diet is to include the six tastes (sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent) in each meal. Along with the six tastes, filling your plate with the colors of the rainbow promotes a long and healthy life.” WayLongSimpleColorSweetHealthyTasteSixBitterDietsMealsBalancedPlatesRainbowFillingSourHealthy LifeSaltySimple WaysBalanced DietColors Of The Rainbow Author:Deepak Chopra
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.” PeopleKnowsWayLongStillsI CanRunningSchoolAbilityCareersTalentDangerousColorLong TimeHigh SchoolSkinsBallsThreatAfrican AmericanRunnersStereotypeQuarterback Author:Deshaun Watson
“The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.” WayFeelsLooksStillsWholeUseLightFilmDarkChangedColorPaintingClothesSeparationGet BetterSubtleDigitalFlatsPrintingScreeningLight And DarkJuxtaposition Author:Colleen Atwood
“The main way I start to allocate color is that it comes from the comics. That's where it all starts from.” WayColor Author:Alexandra Byrne
“Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.” PeopleWayLevelsHappenedStageColorTablesTreatedDiscourseNoticing Author:Junot Diaz
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.” WayMadeMatterLiteratureLinesColorPaintingMusic IsNotes Author:Amos Oz
“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.” WayHumansHardWould BeAbleCultureGivenSocialEasyDifferencesRaceColorHairSkinsSpotsConstructsDnaExposureImplicationsTextureSkin ColorMartiansBasic Things Author:Jim Goad
“I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and I would do pop color with hats from a line called Ale et Ange out of New york City. They created all these hats and I just thought they were super fresh and the only way that I could really get them across...I was just like, 'Let me make everything mute and just put on the hat.'” MenWayWantedLinesCitiesNew YorkColorClothesLet MePopsHatsNew York CityMuteAleUnderstated Author:Pusha T
“If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.” IfsThinkingWayShouldTwoNamesWhiteCasesMysteryColorUltimatePhilosophicalJewAbstractPrimitiveBiblicalExistentialDeitiesBeardTwo WaysDescribingMislead Author:Frank Moore Cross
“I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes is there. I'm never going to get rid of it. I'm not going to wake up one morning and really like the way I look, but as long as other people like the way I look, that's fine.” PeopleWayLooksLongEyeMorningColorFineWake UpBotherInsecurity Author:George Michael
“Donald Trump is a man who was the star of a network reality show that helped to create templates for the abysmally biased way in which women and people of color, in particular women of color, have been treated in reality TV for the last decade and a half.” PeopleMenWayHas BeensShowsRealityLastsStarsHalfParticularColorTvsTrumpDecadesTreatedBiasedReality TvReality Shows Author:Jennifer Pozner
“I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayStillsCultureEnjoySoundEnvironmentCarColorSmellSensesOur WorldGrayPrimitiveCraveRichnessGarageCubicles Author:Janet Fitch
“It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentStoriesKidsArtistColorPerspectiveHealthyComputerBirdBluePopsButtonsLiteralOutlinesDifferent PerspectiveBluebirdColor Blue Author:Julie Taymor
“When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.” ThinkingWayArtArtistWhiteColorPeriodsAfrican AmericanRenaissanceHarlemBright ColorsHarlem Renaissance Author:Nikki Grimes
“Back when I played, basketball was all about fundamentals, about hustling, getting those loose balls, all those rebounds under the basket. That equals up to 12, 14, 16 points. You can lose a game with that much. It's different watching basketball now. People don't play the same way. It doesn't matter if you score, if you can't stop the other team from scoring. Our coach used to kick our ass if we didn't. I was told if you saw more of the other team color under the basket than your own team color, you ain't doing your job. Everybody should be under the board, trying to get that ball.” PeopleIfsWayShouldTryingDifferentMatterPlayJobsUsedGamesLosesSawsTeamColorBasketballBallsFundamentalsCoachesAssBoardsKicksScoreHustleBasketsBack WhenRebound Author:Leslie Jones
“The people that say diversity is the reason for the greatness are purposely assaulting the United States as founded. They want you to believe that America was only great for a few people as founded, because, as founded, America was gigantically discriminating against the poor and against people of color and against transgenders. Yeah, I've read the Federalist Papers, you know. James Madison, he wasn't popular with the transgender group back then. Did you know that? You won't find the word. It was not a factor, the way they have attempted to modernize things here today. It's just lies.” PeopleKnowsWayWantBelieveStatesReasonTodayAmericaLyingPoorUnitedUnited StatesGroupsGreatnessColorPaperDiversityYeahFactorsPapersTransgenderDid You KnowMadisonFederalistFederalist Papers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young people of color - I know there are many who do care about their future, who are striving to affect their world in a positive way.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayImportantCareYoungYouthColorImportant ThingsStrive Author:Renee Watson
“The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.” PeopleWayDifferentUnderstandingLinesPartyRaceCuttingGenerationsColorAmountInteractionCreedsUnprecedentedPartisansDifferent ColorsDifferent Races Author:Barack Obama
“It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.” WayRealMatterUseRealityColorWallSceneRedBlueGreenYellowUnrealUntrueArrangingBlue And Yellow Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“We need heroes of color in all different genres. It's also valuable for white readers to be able to meet people in books that are different than themselves. That can be a way of expanding their minds and experiences.” PeopleWayNeedsMindBookDifferentAbleWhiteColorReaderHeroValuableGenreExpandingDifferent Genres Author:Kekla Magoon
“I definitely feel like it took me a while to learn the baseline things you have to do if you want people to hear you. That's why I've had the same haircut for the entire time that I've been on television and that's why I wear literally the same jacket every day. I keep all the clothes I wear on TV in my office on a little hanging rack. My girlfriend calls it all the colors of the German rainbow. Grays, blacks, a slightly greenish gray for the days that I'm feeling particularly festive. I'm not trying to accomplish anything in the way I look other than to be boring enough for people to hear me.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsTryingLooksLittlesEnoughFeelingsTelevisionColorTvsOfficeClothesBoringAccomplishGirlfriendGrayRainbowJacketsMy GirlfriendHaircutsRacksFestive Author:Rachel Maddow
“The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.” WayGivingTryingHeartDifferentCharacterRealityWantedActingColorTypeRootsRootedDragAspireHueBelievableDifferent CharactersDifferent Colors Author:Tobias Menzies
“Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.” WayDifferentKidsColorShapesVegetablesIntroducingSoupFriesStir Fry Author:Emeril Lagasse
“I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.” WayColorBirdFishesParadiseCabaret Author:Christian Louboutin
“Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit, I like the color.” WayFeelsMomentsBigsJoySituationMorningTreeColorTypeFruitVegetables Author:Christian Louboutin
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” WayArtArtistFoundLanguageInspiringDesignColorFlowerShapesPainterArtisticColourGeorgiaFine ArtsFamous ArtistArt EducationArt And ArtistsInspirational ArtistInspirational ArtCreating ArtFine ArtistsFavorite ArtistArt TeacherInspiring ArtInspiration And ArtInspiring ArtistMusic Artist Book:Georgia O'Keeffe Source: Georgia O'Keeffe
“In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.” ThinkingWayHappensColorIndustryOughtMedicalPlanesAviationPilotsCrashIncidentsRadarBackupPlane CrashesInstrumentation Author:Dennis Quaid
“I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.” WayUsedColorSkinsI RealizedUsed To BePreferenceImmatureSkin ColorHomophobicMature And Immature Author:ASAP Rocky
“I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.” WayUsedResultsGreaterColorWelcomeNew WaysPrecisionNew Words Author:William Safire
“When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.” WayWritingLiteratureWaterRoomsColorRainDetailsConcreteWetLeafsConcentratingDrop Of Water Author:Donna Tartt
“Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.” WayI CanBlackColorPaintSuitsShowersToesSleevesBarefootVery Cool Author:Steven Tyler
“To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.” WayWholeArtistColorShapesIncrediblesAppearanceMakeupLensesPrescriptionsAccessoriesEyewear Author:Vera Wang
“I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.” WayRealityAmericaColorSkinsBlindMatureLooking ForwardSeparatingSkin Color Author:J. C. Watts