Jesmyn Ward Quotes
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'Jesmyn Ward
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
Jack McBrayer -
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie -
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne -
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Ralph Fiennes -
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian -
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Barbara Mikulski -
I am a just man.
Fidel Castro -
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
Fiona McIntosh -
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Harold Prince
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
Fat Joe -
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
Ted Turner -
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Gabriel Byrne -
We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
Abbi Jacobson
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Patrick Marber -
It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
Andy Summers The Police -
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.
Kurt Busch -
I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.
Kathleen Anne Brien -
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
Jesmyn Ward