Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes

We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
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• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
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• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
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• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Time
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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
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• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
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• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
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• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
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• I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• But the working I would always want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
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• If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

  

  Dolly Parton
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• I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Future

• I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.

  

  Jameela Jamil
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• I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!

  

  Dierks Bentley
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• We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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