Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
Odetta Holmes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
Samantha Power
I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
Zara Larsson
First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
Garry Shandling
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
Wally Schirra
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
Ioan Gruffudd
I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
Madi Diaz
I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
Carey Mulligan
There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
Adam Driver
I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.
Amanda Beard
I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood's ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.
Jan Schakowsky
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
James McAvoy
It is only the fear of God, can deliver us from the fear of man.
John Witherspoon
Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
Jerome Charyn
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
Odetta Holmes