Yaya DaCosta Quotes

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Man

• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • High
  • Parents

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Success
  • Going

• I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Problems

• In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Time
  • School
  • True

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Talk

• I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Women
  • Respect

• When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• 'Coexist' was tough to make.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Make
  • Tough
  • Coexist

• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Unity

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Jokes
  • Comedian
  • Material

• Women are now suffering from depression, stroke, and dementia twice as much as men, and an astonishing 70% of Alzheimer's patients are female. Women’s health issues are at a critical tipping point. More than…

  

  Alexandra Richards
  • Women
  • Health
  • Issues

• Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Good
  • May
  • Action

• Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

  

  Travis Scott
  • Important
  • Money
  • Process

• Every opportunity I've had to work and act with incredibly talented directors, like Dean Holland was on 'Love,' and the writers and creators of that show, Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Leslie Arfin, have been incredible learning experiences that have informed my creative process.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Opportunity
  • Process
  • Directors

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• It was a really, really fast but organic process.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Process
  • Fast
  • Organic