Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

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• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • Audience

• If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Young

• I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

  

  Young Thug
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Day
  • Write

• I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Think
  • Way
  • Food

• I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Power
  • Kids
  • Forever

• -the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I will always eat pizza! Always.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Pizza

• The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Good
  • Why
  • Business

• For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

  

  David Friedman
  • Live
  • High
  • Disney

• Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Power
  • Value

• The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • People
  • Science

• If I want to know how to do a black cat eye, I don't drive to a department store. I'll go on YouTube, cross-check reviews of a product, and then maybe talk about it on Instagram.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Black
  • Cat

• This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • First Time

• Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Class