Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes
We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
Yahoo Serious
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
Edith Head
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
Jackie DeShannon
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
Kate Bush
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
L.A. Reid
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
Karen Traviss
It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama
'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.
Iain Banks
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
Charles Dickens
I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
Within the body there is played
Kabir
For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.
Bikram Choudhury
Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen
We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law, but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, that the Constitution will be color blind, as Justice Harlan said at the turn of the century.
John F. Kennedy
We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.
Jens Martin Skibsted
