Afeni Shakur Quotes

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

Afeni Shakur

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• The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Difference
  • Bread

• Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Difference
  • Chicken
  • Nuts

• I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Country
  • Rest
  • Difference

• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Air
  • Difference

• Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Difference

• I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Great
  • Want
  • Difference

• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Think
  • Color
  • Difference

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Man
  • Me
  • Mom

• The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Difference
  • Word
  • Lightning

• What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

  

  Mark Batterson
  • World
  • Change
  • Unique

• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • True
  • Dark
  • Humble

• Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Running
  • Difference
  • Piece

• The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

  

  Aristotle
  • Living
  • Difference
  • Learned

• There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Difference
  • Harmony
  • Laws

• I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Business
  • Audience
  • Difference

• You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

  

  Bob Enyart
  • Difference
  • DNA
  • Monkey

• I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Creativity

• I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Religious
  • Public
  • Ideological

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Character
  • Happens
  • Thankful

• The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.

  

  Afeni Shakur
  • Difference
  • Spotlight
  • Black Men