Jillian Hervey Quotes

I think for women, especially women of colour, hair has so much to do with our identity and our confidence levels. I've made a conscious choice after growing up and feeling insecure and trying to achieve this look that actually wasn't me, where I've finally stopped relaxing my hair and went back to my natural texture.

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Lost
  • Religion
  • Say

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Army

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Day

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Oppressed

• People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Without
  • Complexity

• The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • She
  • Soul
  • Loving

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Up
  • Growing

• [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Art
  • Feeling
  • Action

• It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

  

  John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Education
  • Wisdom
  • Boy

• On this Twitter thing, at least five people a day say 'bring back the mullet.' My wife told me I'm not allowed. Troy Tulowitzki wants me to grow a rat-tail for his charity. I was like, 'What the heck is a rat-tail?'

  

  John Kruk
  • People
  • Wife
  • Charity

• I think for women, especially women of colour, hair has so much to do with our identity and our confidence levels. I've made a conscious choice after growing up and feeling insecure and trying to achieve this look that actually wasn't me, where I've finally stopped relaxing my hair and went back to my natural texture.

  

  Jillian Hervey
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