Sun Ra Quotes

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

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• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Done
  • Home
  • Always

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Important
  • Know
  • Thought

• Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Enjoy

• I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Like
  • Two

• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Microsoft
  • E-mail

• I love tap!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tap

• I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Guy
  • Mom

• On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you.' I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Home

• Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Democracy

• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Garden

• The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • America
  • Success
  • Free

• My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

  

  Brooke Smith
  • Different
  • Women
  • She

• Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

  

  Scott Turow
  • World
  • Reading
  • Drug

• I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Good
  • Art
  • Preparation

• Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Christian
  • Prosperity

• If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

  

  Sun Ra
  • World
  • Mad