F. Sionil Jose Quotes
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.F. Sionil Jose
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan -
When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges -
People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
Foster Friess -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
FKA twigs -
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove -
I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown -
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides -
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton -
My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
Carla Hall
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler -
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
Nancy Friday -
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Vanessa Bayer -
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer. I never had an idea that I would do anything in front of the camera, and that kind of happened by accident. But I wanted to be a producer or give me a job with the Yankees or play for the Knicks. I was a sports nut when I was a kid.
Matt Lauer -
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain -
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
T. E. Lawrence -
It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'
G-Eazy -
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
F. Sionil Jose