Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

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• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Projects
  • Brought
  • Several

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • You
  • Unique

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Together
  • Technology
  • Minds

• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Dad

• For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Life
  • Children

• It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in schools or troops where everyone lives the same life, disease does not strike everyone indifferently.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Life

• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Music
  • Important
  • News

• The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • Music
  • Dance

• The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

  

  Odetta Holmes
  • Music
  • Celebration