Jason Reynolds Quotes
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.Jason Reynolds
Quotes to Explore
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Barbra Streisand -
I love Star City - it is my home.
Valentina Tereshkova -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
Dan Gertler -
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
Olly Murs -
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
Taslima Nasrin -
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
Hanoi Hannah -
The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
Mandy Patinkin -
All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
Olivia De Havilland -
I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
Adam Garcia
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
Nancy Pelosi -
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
Dan O'Brien -
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill -
Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.
Gary Kovacs -
I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
Larry David
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara Tuchman -
You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.
Jeff Baena -
I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
M. Shadows -
I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene [in Kosovo]. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody [Clinton] is doing something.
Mike Farrell -
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
Jason Reynolds