Amby Burfoot Quotes
That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
Quotes to Explore
-
The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
-
While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
-
It's nice not to be too boring.
-
My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
-
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
-
I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
-
Moonlight is sculpture.
-
In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
-
I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.
-
People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
-
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
-
I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
-
Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
-
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
-
My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
-
Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.
-
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
-
I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.
-
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
-
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
-
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.
-
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
-
That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.
