Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Think
  • Team
  • Win

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Road

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from the East Coast - a little bit of variance on the coast - I'm from Ohio, and I understand that.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Successful

• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • She
  • Fashion

• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Religious

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Business
  • Peace

• I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Voting

• It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • True
  • Me

• As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Long
  • Will
  • Survive

• The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Fear
  • Jews
  • Assimilation

• A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Important

• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • History

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• I intend to run. But this is not a formal announcement. If the fundraising continues like it is, it's a no-brainer decision.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Decision
  • Formal
  • Announcement

• We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

  

  Marco Arment

• I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Help
  • Talk
  • Lived