Viola Davis Quotes

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

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• The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

  

  Washed Out
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Perspective

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Beautiful
  • Diamond
  • Jewelry

• You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Ugly

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Sex

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Song

• I love Catherine Maladrino, Angela Dean and Nicole Miller. Catherine Maladrino designs that beautiful, high-class red carpet stuff. Nicole Miller makes beautiful dresses you can wear every day. And when you just want to go and shut it down, you turn to Angela Dean.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Love
  • High
  • Beautiful

• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Beautiful
  • Problem
  • Beauty

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Ugly

• There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Best
  • Gay
  • Better

• We must all work together to bring the best to Puerto Rico.

  

  Anibal Acevedo Vila
  • Work
  • Together

• If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly
  • Term