Patrisse Cullors Quotes

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

Patrisse Cullors

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• It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Game
  • Passion
  • Football

• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • American
  • Style
  • Conscious

• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Stop

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Know
  • Like
  • Film

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Victory

• I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Then

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Game

• I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Family
  • Girl

• Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Now
  • Deal
  • Meaningless

• I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mother
  • House
  • Care

• Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

  

  Gelila Bekele
  • Clever

• I am a true soul genius and, unlike certain other singers, 100 per cent man.

  

  Sananda Maitreya
  • Soul
  • Genius
  • Singers

• We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

  

  Patrisse Cullors