Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten -
There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
Halima Aden -
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
Kate Adie -
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
Tate Donovan -
If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Idris Elba -
I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
Rain Phoenix -
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
Wendy Kopp -
I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
Francesca Annis
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
Nathan Fielder -
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
Saint Francis de Sales -
I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
Maisie Williams -
Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
Taylor Momsen -
Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
Wadah Khanfar -
I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
Rachel Perry
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
Kapil Dev -
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
Haley Joel Osment -
I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
Charles Kuralt -
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
Isabel Wilkerson