Gayle Rankin Quotes

'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understand
  • Slaves
  • Whatever

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Study

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Heart
  • Here
  • Miami

• These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • My Life

• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Loved

• The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Community
  • Path

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Great
  • Positive

• When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Progress
  • Feedback

• You can get beat any day.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Day
  • Beat

• I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Die
  • Down

• Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

  

  Carol Bly
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Enough

• There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Nice
  • Air
  • Broken

• 'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.

  

  Gayle Rankin
  • Inspired