Ralph Ellison Quotes
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White -
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon -
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt -
I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
Utada Hikaru -
If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
Ireland Baldwin -
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
People trash talk me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
Ian MacKaye -
But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
Wendy Kopp -
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner -
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
Otto Weininger -
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.
Charles Saatchi -
I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
Vanilla Ice -
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
Ralph Ellison