Beatrice Sparks Quotes

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

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• I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Party
  • Myself

• Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Neighbor
  • Champagne

• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Heaven
  • Communication
  • Away

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Better
  • Opportunities

• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Life
  • Independent
  • For Her

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • Why
  • Win

• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Need

• My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

  

  Zendaya
  • Used
  • Room
  • Full

• Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• He has the most who is most content with the least.

  

  Diogenes

• When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • Real
  • Money

• Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
  • Future
  • Education

• Kids will tease you for just about anything.

  

  James Badge Dale
  • Kids

• My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Time
  • Work
  • Giving

• I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Real
  • Books