Nikki Grimes Quotes

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

Nikki Grimes

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• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Films

• I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Giving
  • Advice

• I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,'What are you quitting?', I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Cold

• … let's all remember that we have a government 'of the people, for the people, and by the people', and there are very few people in our government that you can't buy.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Remember

• I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• When it comes to the stage, I can't help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Help
  • Inspired

• 'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Book

• Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because it also challenges social stability, and stories, as a result, are often told much more simply.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • People
  • Believe

• I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Up
  • Clouds

• People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People

• I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • Work

• For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.

  

  Charles Schwab

• I’m more interested in leading a loving life, you know, and being generous in spirit to people that work for me. There has to be some fundamental belief in some sort of God, I think, but it’s not something I can easily identify with.

  

  Michael Eavis
  • People
  • Work
  • Belief

• That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Sleep
  • Smell
  • Ducks

• But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

  

  Nikki Grimes
  • People
  • Heart
  • Judge