Philomena Kwao Quotes

Beauty, to me, is not a physical thing. It's a feeling.

Philomena Kwao

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Weapons

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Women
  • Confidence

• If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Life
  • Think
  • Stop

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Text

• I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Believe
  • House

• As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • World
  • Long
  • Forever

• There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• I'm part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains - in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?

  

  Patti Davis
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Feeling

• In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Want

• Beauty, to me, is not a physical thing. It's a feeling.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Feeling