Bessie Head Quotes
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.Bessie Head
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton -
When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
J. C. Watts -
I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
Sam Yagan -
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
Sam Neill -
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris -
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
Oksana Baiul
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh -
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley -
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
Ma Jian -
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I take my work seriously.
Daniel Craig -
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
Bailee Madison -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor -
At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
Kangana Ranaut -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
Garth Brooks -
Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.
Ian Curtis Joy Division -
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki -
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
James L. Buckley -
They mean a trip to Paris or RomeTo someone else but not for me.The trains and boats and planesTook you away, away from me.
Hal David -
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
Bessie Head