Malcolm X Quotes

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • College
  • Thought

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Word
  • Survival

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Family
  • Thankful
  • Doctors

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Education
  • Problem

• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

  Cavour
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Truth

• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Director

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I don't know if anyone knows if they're ever any good, but I went to drama school in Scotland, in a classical acting course, and my first year, I remember one of my tutors telling me that I couldn't act, and I should give up and all this sort of thing, and then, they cast me as Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Life
  • Earth

• I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Life
  • Work

• Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Work
  • Character
  • Work Hard

• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  

  Malcolm X
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