Black And White Quotes - Page 21

• Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
  Condescendingly.
  Take a seat.
  Take your life.
  Plot it out in black and white.

  John Mayer

  Real, Plot, World

  Song: No Such Thing

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• Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

  David E. Hoffman

  Choices, Today, Binary

  "Ronald Reagan Dies". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dream, Kings

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

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• Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, People, Crowds

  "Torvalds Attacks It Industry 'Security Circus'". www.cnet.com. July 18, 2008.

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• I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Littles, Nine, Horror

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• I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.

  Russell D. Moore

  Country, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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• We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Book, Writing, Names

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Light, Monsters, Horror

  Source: deadline.com

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Character, Guy, Too Much

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2008.

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• Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

  Joe Berlinger

  Sound, Television, Shade

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make good things is to inspire people and make them feel as though what they're watching is real.

  Kim Longinotto

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

  Adrian Tomine

  Years, Issues, Vacuums

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

  Diane Wilson

  Color, Design, Add

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• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  Damian Loeb

  Color, People, Tvs

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• There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

  Sasha Grey

  People, Sexuality, Aspect

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• There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Believe, Past

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.185, Dell

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• A Panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a Panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry, and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black and white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

  Lynne Truss

  Confused, Gun, Doors

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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• The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Littles, Penguins

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• …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

  Kate Bornstein

  Rainbow, Gender, Sane

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.133, Routledge

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• The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Fear, Hate, World

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.14, A&C Black

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• The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Eye, Geometric Shapes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

  Jeff Bridges

  Going Out, Daylight, Remember

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