Teyana Taylor Quotes

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• The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • History
  • Proud

• I think people should be consumers of journalism.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Should

• In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Important
  • Style
  • Matters

• There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Chapters

• For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Truth

• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Long
  • Country

• If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

  

  Zell Miller
  • Today
  • Party

• A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

  

  Aristotle
  • Free
  • Control
  • Government

• On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Remember
  • Language
  • Dreams

• Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Grace
  • Seize
  • Unworthiness

• The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Love

• A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Hungry
  • Gulf

• There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Break

• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • History
  • Human

• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Victim
  • Believer
  • Religions

• My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.

  

  Estelle
  • Together
  • Controversy
  • My Dad

• Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.

  

  Andy Barrie
  • Collection
  • Toronto
  • Encountered

• I have a purity ring.

  

  Teyana Taylor
  • Rings
  • Purity