Adina Porter Quotes

I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

Adina Porter

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• I've dealt with a lot in my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Dealt

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Power
  • Politics

• It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Children
  • Duty

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Passion
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Done
  • Man
  • Animal

• These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Failure
  • See
  • Darkness

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Different
  • School

• There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Game

• That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Why
  • Personality
  • TV

• Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Energy
  • Force
  • Rotting

• I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous decision [that the guards didn't carry weapons]? James Shabazz said to me with a shrug, you just didn't know Malcolm. Malcolm was adamant, and that whatever Malcolm wanted, that's what we just did.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Decision
  • Members

• Being a world traveler, I'm touched and moved by everything that happens, especially to children. It gets me emotionally sick and I go through a lot of pain when I see that type of pain. I can't pretend as if I don't see it. It affects me very much.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Pain
  • Affects

• Some things will never change.

  

  Bruce Randall Hornsby Ambrosia
  • Change

• I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.

  

  Adina Porter
  • Decision
  • Read
  • Make