Malcolm X Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
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I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
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Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.
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I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.
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I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
