John Allison Quotes

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

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• I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • American
  • Funny

• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • True
  • Wrong

• I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Me
  • Door

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Caring
  • Loving

• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Silly

• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • You
  • Learn

• Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

  

  April Gornik
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she's been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have... what work did she ever have to do in her life?

  

  Drake Bell
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • War

• Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Important
  • Forever
  • Childhood

• I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

  

  John Allison
  • People
  • Important
  • College