David Levering Lewis Quotes

The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

David Levering Lewis

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• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Work
  • Beauty

• When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Work
  • Start
  • Habits

• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Think
  • Grandfather

• I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Professional
  • Commitment

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• Democrats hate success.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Democrats

• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Success
  • Perfection
  • Esteem

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Business
  • Question

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Work
  • Society
  • Cats

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Work

• I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Help
  • Model

• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Up
  • Art
  • Way

• The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Failure