Yvonne Orji Quotes

I'm grounded in who I am.

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• I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Want

• The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Common

• Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Women
  • Power
  • Powerful

• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Men
  • War
  • Evil

• I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Faith

• There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Women
  • Small

• My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Childhood

• I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Children
  • I Think

• Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Time
  • Power
  • Decision

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

  

  Sacagawea
  • World
  • Living
  • Saying

• Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Life
  • Piano

• North Korea is a problem, not only because of its fast advancing nuclear and missile program but also because of the sorry state of the country’s economy and its abysmal human rights record. It is a problem for us outsiders, but it is an even greater problem for the North Korean people themselves. As people are fond of saying in such situations that "something has to be done." But what exactly?

  

  Andrei Lankov
  • Problem
  • Economy
  • Human Rights

• Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

  

  Nick Saban
  • Talent
  • Ability
  • Reasons

• The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Enemy
  • Conviction

• Big Bang is what made me who I am today. With them, I laugh the most, and I feel like I can achieve things

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Today
  • Laughing
  • Who I Am

• It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • God
  • Black

• I'm grounded in who I am.

  

  Yvonne Orji
  • Who I Am
  • Grounded