Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

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• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Flaws

• Good argument is intended to persuade another.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Argument
  • Another

• I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nice

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Game
  • Very
  • Gangster

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Lies

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Hope
  • Change
  • How Far

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• You're always going to have terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • You
  • Always
  • Terrorism

• I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Will
  • Twitter
  • Million

• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Most
  • Loving
  • Daring

• As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Life
  • World
  • Understanding

• They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Up
  • Abuse

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

  

  Jasmine Tookes
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Fashion

• In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Small

• Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Fashion
  • Fad
  • Denouncers