Ory Okolloh Quotes
While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.Ory Okolloh
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
Adam Arkin -
With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay -
At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
Halsey -
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai -
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Lao Tzu -
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Gale Norton
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry -
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
Safra A. Catz -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis -
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
Iris Apfel -
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace -
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
Lake Bell -
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
Tadashi Yanai -
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
Patrick Modiano -
Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
F. Gary Gray -
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
Vanessa Hudgens
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall -
I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.
Courtney Love -
I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
James Avery -
Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
Aaron Francis Broussard -
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
Ory Okolloh