Jaye Davidson Quotes
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.Jaye Davidson
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn -
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci -
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
Ibrahim Babangida -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
Ram Kapoor
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
Manny Montana -
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Caitlin Moran -
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
Olin Miller -
One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown -
The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
Pardis Sabeti
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
Xi Jinping -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks -
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
Zhang Zhidong -
It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
Clarence Clemons -
Too many children and adults go hungry every day.
Andrew Zimmern -
When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV.
Jay Parini -
Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.
Yves Montand -
We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
Jaye Davidson