Amilcar Cabral Quotes
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
-
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
-
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
-
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
-
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
-
I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
-
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
-
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
-
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
-
I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
-
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
-
People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
-
You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
-
I love girl power.
-
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
-
Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
-
One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.
-
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
-
I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
-
Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
-
You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.
-
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
