John Amos Quotes

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

John Amos

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• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moment

• What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Trying
  • Going
  • Away

• To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • Struggle
  • Conflict

• I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Time
  • Art
  • Day

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Stories

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Style
  • Struggle
  • Solution

• The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be overcome, the panic fear, 'Is that possible, then?' So it came about that gradually a piece was written, firmly and consciously, that wasn't in a definite key any more.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Kind
  • Struggle
  • Overcoming

• I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Guy
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Vision
  • Poet
  • Sincerity

• It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

  

  John Amos
  • Struggle