Alma Powell Quotes

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

Alma Powell

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• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
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• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • People
  • Want
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• 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • War
  • Song
  • Ride

• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Know
  • Ignorance

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Technology
  • Labour
  • Compete

• In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Together

• I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Problem

• We are one another's strength.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Strength
  • To Be

• I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

  

  David Guetta
  • Career
  • Education
  • Proud

• I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Travel

• I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.

  

  Mark Consuelos

• Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different

• My parents made every effort to encourage me to pursue anything in life that I enjoyed or found appealing so that I would be able to better understand myself and my passions as I grew up.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • Life
  • Up
  • Parents

• Yoga helps me be a stronger runner. I can lose track of my form, and yoga reminds me how important it is.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Important
  • Yoga

• I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Control
  • Worry
  • Silly

• I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

  

  Lucinda Williams

• It's awesome starting up front. We were fast in practice, but I know everybody will pick it up as well tomorrow.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Awesome
  • Everybody
  • Starting

• But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Great
  • She
  • Hand

• Over the course of my career as an engineer-turned-tech evangelist, I've had the privilege of travelling the world and seeing the extraordinary impact of mobile on people and communities across a broad range of cultures and socio-economic strata. In many ways, mobile is a democratizing force. It empowers us. It inspires us. It extends our reach.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I don't write about my life in my column.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Write
  • My Life

• The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh to where listeners won't get everything from just one listen. They can go back to it months, weeks, or even years later and hear something that they didn't ever hear before. That's what it's all about.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music
  • Fun

• I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

  

  Alma Powell
  • Husband
  • President
  • Fearful