Brenda Holloway Quotes

I feel Motown really exploited me.

Brenda Holloway

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• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • High
  • Death
  • Moral

• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Knowledge
  • Church
  • Rules

• If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • True
  • Journey
  • Stay True

• What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Loneliness
  • Burden
  • Bear

• Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Green
  • Been
  • Streets

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Country
  • Together
  • Political

• As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Way

• I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Weird

• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • You
  • Mistakes

• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Difference

• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Lost

• The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Feeling

• I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Different
  • True

• I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Celebrity

• I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

  

  Lisa Guerrero

• I am a conservative. I'm very much pro-life. If you go down the list of what makes up a conservative, I'm there almost all the way.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Life
  • Up

• We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Christian
  • Week
  • Teaching

• I feel Motown really exploited me.

  

  Brenda Holloway