Takeoff (Kirsnick Khari Ball) Quotes

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• There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Question
  • Moral

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Think
  • Creative

• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Writing
  • Questions
  • Without

• A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Internet

• Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Future
  • Wealth
  • Gift

• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • More
  • Preaching

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • School
  • Movie
  • High

• And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

  

  Fred Thompson
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Judge

• My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Good
  • Job
  • Study

• We never clocked a job.

  

  Takeoff
  • Job
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