Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

Jacqueline Woodson

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• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ideas
  • Bed
  • Communism

• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Watching
  • Judgmental

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Negative

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Best

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Together

• Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Own

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Thought
  • Transformation

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Hand

• Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I think 90% of women that I come into contact with are fans of my hair.

  

  Noah Syndergaard
  • Women
  • Fans
  • Contact

• I think that knowing where you're going is important, and it's not like, when Robert says that, it's not like we know what every episode of the next five, four, five, six seasons of the show is going to be. I think Matt Weiner knew how Mad Men was going to end. Vince Gilligan knew how Breaking Bad was going to end. Marc Cherry knew how Desperate Housewives was going to end. Along the way, the process of crafting those stories ... You don't know what the road, what twists and turns that road is going to take to ultimately get you there.

  

  Chris Black
  • Important
  • End
  • Knowing

• I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Important
  • Understanding