Bozoma Saint John Quotes
The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.
Quotes to Explore
-
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
-
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
-
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
-
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
-
My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
-
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
-
I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
-
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
-
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
-
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
-
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
-
I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
-
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
-
If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
-
After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
-
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
-
I grew up pretty much with nothing.
-
I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
-
I had to make 500 shots every day, and when my mom wasn't looking, I'd get up closer to the basket and do lay-ups and count them, and she'd be at the back window at the kitchen and knock. Then I'd have to go back and shoot from longer.
-
I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.
-
If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
-
We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.
-
If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they can really kind of get their cars out on the track and open up the accelerator a little bit.
-
The number of African Americans in Silicon Valley is dismal. It's not up to one company - it's up to the entire industry to make sure that we are moving the conversation forward. Sometimes those walls of competition need to come down so we can move the entire industry forward.
