Ella Baker Quotes

You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

Ella Baker

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Home
  • Problem
  • Same

• The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Think
  • Choice

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Goal

• A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Plan
  • Employees
  • Edge

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Real
  • Best

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Doing

• Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Power
  • Free
  • Doing

• When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

  

  Joe Morgan
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Truth
  • Age

• Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Long
  • Happy

• You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • Together