Sarah Kay Quotes
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
Quotes to Explore
-
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
-
Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
-
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
-
Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
-
To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
-
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
-
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
-
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
-
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
-
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
-
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
-
Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
-
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
-
Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
-
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
-
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
-
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
-
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
-
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
-
I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.
-
As a nurturer, I have always lived my life running for others, trying to make everyone happy, even if I often overlooked my own needs. I do it because it makes me happy and fulfilled.
-
I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.
-
Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
-
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.
