Saint Augustine Quotes

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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• As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Me
  • Looking

• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Perspective

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Black
  • Interesting

• People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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

• 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

• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Tough

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Listening
  • Years

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
  • Detail

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

  

  Sam Simon
  • People
  • Giving
  • Generosity

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

  Biz Stone
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Sales

• The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Mean
  • Famous

• I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Want

• The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Best

• When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Joy