Olympia Brown Quotes

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Age
  • Gold
  • Rules

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Power
  • Yoga

• There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Family
  • Remember

• For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Freedom
  • Decision
  • Rich

• The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
  • People
  • Money

• He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Good
  • Future
  • Present