Sarah Breedlove (Madam C. J. Walker) Quotes
One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
Sarah Breedlove
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
Yami Gautam
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.
James Levine
Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.
C. S. Lewis
I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
Xosha Roquemore
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
Amy Chua
I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.
Nell Scovell
One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.
Sarah Breedlove