Pearl Cleage Quotes

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

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• I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Day

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Good
  • Work
  • Kid

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Chance

• Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Emotional
  • Baby
  • Parenting

• I wanted to be a professional drummer.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Professional
  • Drummer

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Like
  • King
  • Rule

• When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Why
  • Think

• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Learn
  • Organization

• I could program the VCR when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Young
  • Program
  • VCR

• If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lies

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Important
  • Me
  • Everyone

• The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a 'point of view.' (p. 204)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Book

• Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

  

  James Lankford
  • School

• I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.

  

  Simon Beaufoy
  • People
  • Film
  • Complicated

• I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

  

  Joanne Liu

• I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

  

  Pearl Cleage