Katrina Adams Quotes

We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Stand

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • World
  • Why
  • Father

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Space
  • Body
  • Own

• I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Models
  • Bunch

• The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Me
  • Film

• I choose work with the people I like to work with.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Choose

• I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Very

• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Need
  • Consumption

• None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Construction

• (That is it!)

  

  Karl Marx

• I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

  

  Johnny Rivers

• Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Friends

• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Television
  • Monkey
  • Marches

• We make sure that we continue to educate our youth on who Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe were.

  

  Katrina Adams