Aja Monet Quotes
Poetry alone cannot change the material conditions of an unjust society, but I challenge anyone to name a substantive freedom movement that does not have poetry.Aja Monet
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
Halston Sage -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell -
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw -
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly -
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
Yani Tseng -
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Tariq Ali -
I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Carine Roitfeld -
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright -
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
Patrick O'Brian -
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood -
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
Pat Conroy -
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
Halle Berry -
History will treat me right.
Ralph Abernathy
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
Warren Spahn -
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
Zhang Yimou -
Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
Gary Locke -
You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life.
Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes -
You never compromise with violence. You never compromise with intimidation. You never compromise by those who want to use those to extinguish freedom and democracy, because if you do then the very things for which you stand are extinguished.
Margaret Thatcher -
Poetry alone cannot change the material conditions of an unjust society, but I challenge anyone to name a substantive freedom movement that does not have poetry.
Aja Monet