Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

Raheem DeVaughn

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Problem
  • Risk
  • Financial

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Moment

• Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Gentleman
  • Tell
  • Once

• Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Learn
  • Habit
  • Fame

• Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Night
  • Fighting
  • Corruption

• There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Kind
  • Animals
  • Blame

• I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • College
  • Working

• What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class, who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Action
  • Moral

• 'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Charity is really self-interest masquerading under the form of altruism.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Charity

• We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

  

  Joel Salatin

• I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • School
  • Light
  • Model

• If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Up

• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

  

  Jerry Saltz

• I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Patience

• I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and it wears them down. And I don't want that in my life. It's never been an issue - at least, I've never hung out with the sort of horrible people who would make it an issue. I have insecurities, of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• We haven't developed what some have called the precautionary principle which will say look, if there's a reason, if a product is safe, that's fine, but it's really the responsibility of an industry to tell us it's safe and to make sure it's safe. It's not our responsibility to wait until the damage is done.

  

  David Rosner
  • Done
  • Responsibility
  • Reason

• If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Responsibility
  • Destiny
  • Empowering

• I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Why
  • College
  • Learning

• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Interesting
  • Stupid

• It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.

  

  Raheem DeVaughn
  • Responsibility
  • Figure
  • Frequency