Marlon James Quotes

In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.

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• The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • History
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Art
  • Saying
  • Gossip

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • True
  • Pleasure

• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • May
  • Want
  • Grow

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Responsibility
  • Vote
  • Voting

• The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Two
  • Organic
  • Compounds

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Place
  • Kid
  • London

• We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Future
  • Looking
  • Everyone

• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • World
  • Family
  • Shopping

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Nature
  • Young
  • Juice

• McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Together
  • Team
  • Win

• When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Relationships

• Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Respect

• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Good
  • America
  • Quality

• The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Greatest
  • Queen

• Be black, shine, aim high.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • High
  • Black
  • Shine

• 'A Prophet' is one of my favorite films of all time.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Time

• I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

  

  Arjun Rampal

• First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'

  

  Medgar Evers
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• In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.

  

  Marlon James