Alexander Whyte Quotes
If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
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You are never too old to reinvent yourself.
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When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
