Whitney M. Young Quotes
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.Whitney M. Young
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
Yami Gautam -
Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
Fidel Castro -
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
Victor Pinchuk -
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
Octavio Paz -
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
Odette Annable -
We all get self-centered.
Laura Schlessinger -
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
Karen Gillan -
I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
Bam Margera -
President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
Valerie Jarrett
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
Indira Gandhi -
Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
Tatiana Maslany -
Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.
Gabby Douglas -
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
Jack Kemp -
If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
Kalpana Chawla -
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
Yoko Ono
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo -
I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.
J. J. Abrams -
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.
Daniele Vare -
I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
Bat for Lashes -
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney M. Young