Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

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• I believe that you can always learn from observation.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Observation

• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Game

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Art
  • Same

• Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Humanity
  • Tragedy
  • Weapons

• Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Poet

• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Tears

• I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Hands

• If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Sun
  • Story
  • Sky

• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Never

• I was forbidden to talk to my fellow hostages.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Talk
  • Fellow
  • Forbidden

• CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • People
  • Peace
  • Opinion

• I think quotes are very dangerous things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.

  

  William L. Shirer
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Christianity

• There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.

  

  Mary Cheney
  • People
  • Gay

• Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

  

  Ana Ivanovic

• I gained weight and struggled to lose it quickly in order to pursue my dreams of being a model. Being 20 years old, I had no idea how to lose weight fast, and laxatives were an easy way out.

  

  Joanna Krupa
  • Model

• Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

  

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