Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King -
I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
Octavia Spencer -
The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
Gareth Gates -
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami -
At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
Lara Giddings -
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale -
The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
Ina May Gaskin -
How does one get bored of life?
Osric Chau -
I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
Nargis Fakhri
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom -
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
G. Willow Wilson -
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster -
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
Samantha Shannon -
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
Randi Weingarten
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Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.
John Locke Nazareth -
I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
Madeleine Stowe -
My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s.
Keith Ellison -
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
John Edgar Wideman -
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
Bernice Johnson Reagon