Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes

America is a flawed land but a great one indeed.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Way
  • Introduction

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Evil

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Six
  • saw
  • Pilot

• Time was God's first creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Creation

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growing
  • Opportunities

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

  

  Aeriel Miranda
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Great
  • Suffering

• Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs.

  

  Chip Conley
  • Time
  • Business
  • Experience

• America is a flawed land but a great one indeed.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Great
  • America