Betty Shabazz Quotes

Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Chocolate

• I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • America
  • Living

• Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Art
  • May

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Period

• I like to look strong and commanding.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Strong
  • Like
  • Look

• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Loyalty
  • Window
  • Brand

• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Man
  • First
  • Principles

• I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it was important for children, and especially girls, to have that time with their dad so that they could help develop their confidence and their critical thinking skills.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Important

• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Fashion
  • Ideas
  • Drawing

• Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Crazy

• I can't predict what songs will do to the collective consciousness.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Consciousness
  • Collectives

• I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Realizing
  • Rooms
  • Meetings

• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Job
  • Health

• Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

  

  William Booth
  • Devil
  • Harmony
  • Divine

• When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
  • Photography
  • Six

• The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.

  

  T. D. Allman
  • World
  • Peace
  • Threat

• Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

  

  Betty Shabazz
  • Threat
  • Seven
  • Six