“A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.” PeopleKnowsMayHas BeensTwoUsedNextBlackKnownDoorsSpecialGrewGrew UpPaidPolicePrivilegeBlack PeopleInformingInformantsSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in your circle remind you of stable animals: grazing like sheep, stubborn like donkeys, and that cow in the corner looks a lot like the fellow next door. You, like Joseph, knocked on the innkeeper's door. But you were too late. Or too old, sick, dull, damaged, poor, or peculiar. You know the sound of a slamming door.” PeopleKnowsLooksNextSoundAnimalPoorDoorsLateSickFellowsCornersCirclesSpotsDullToo LatePeculiarCowsSheepStableStubbornGlamourNeatCrudeDonkeyBethlehemSmellyGrazingSlamming Doors Author:Max Lucado
“John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.” KnowsForceDoorsInchesBeatenAttemptingOpened Doors Author:Al Sharpton
“I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were "latch-door kids." We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves.” KnowsHomeKidsSchoolMotherFatherDoorsBrotherAdvertisingExecutivesLunchSplitsSecretaryBack To WorkOlder BrotherAfter SchoolLatches Author:George Carlin
“If I could've picked a birthday it would've been on Halloween. Yeah, it's always been my favorite holiday. Not because it was my birthday, but actually because, I think it was the freedom, you know? When you were a little kid, you got to go out and be an adult for a couple of hours. You got to, like, just go out with your friends and knock on peoples' doors and be nuts and pull pranks and stuff like that. You could be whoever you wanted to be, you know, I guess that was the appeal to it.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesKidsWantedStuffHoursDoorsCoupleAdultsYeahMy FavoriteAppealsIf I CouldHolidayNutsBe YouHalloweenLittle KidMy BirthdayPranks Author:Frank Iero
“One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.” PeopleKnowsWellsGovernmentRunningJobsCoursesForceDoorsCrazyMediaIntegrityComputerJournalismJournalistReportsCovered Author:David Frum
“No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsDoeWould BeFilmUsedActorsOpportunityKnow HowDoorsTvsLowsMy FriendsWindowBonesSuperheroChuckGreat ActorsBangingCapesDensity Author:Winona Ryder
“One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.” KnowsMenMaySeemsGovernmentCareTodayYoungRightsDoorsOne ThingEqualMen And WomenConcernFundamentalsInstrumentsStatementsGrantedYoung WomenCitizenshipStatureClosed Doors Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The government is just you know, blowing the doors off the media. And not everywhere, and I think, this is where you know, a lot of those blog reporters and all of those things are bringing a lot of urgency and a lot of momentum to stories that wouldn't normally carry any momentum.” ThinkingKnowsStoriesGovernmentDoorsMediaReportersBlogsMomentumUrgency Author:Jon Stewart
“When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.” KnowsLittlesTwoFeelingsHomeKidsLawMotherHouseStuffWhiteDoorsDogAskingWhite HouseWrestlingLittle KidIn-lawsUpstairsPajamasMother In Law Author:Barack Obama
“Timidity has no place in a major action movie. You have to know how to take your moments. Sometimes walking out the door is just walking out the door. But when it's your moment, you have to go for it.” KnowsSometimesMomentsActionKnow HowDoorsWalkingMajorsYour MomAction MovieTimidityWalking OutWalking Out The Door Author:Terry Crews
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” IfsKnowsWorldLoveLifeInspirationalGivingLooksWholeHandsTruthEarthLyingKnow HowLearningDoorsTeachingKeysSelf ImprovementOneselfWhole WorldEncouraging Book:You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities
“When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.” KnowsLifeMusicDoorsNew YearOne LoveReggae Author:Bob Marley
“Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.” KnowsStoriesRunningKidsAsksSpeakPracticeDoorsDoctorsPressesCornersRecoveryDozenAutismDoctor Who Author:Jenny McCarthy