Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick -
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Language does not make one an elite.
Irrfan Khan -
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
Zac Efron -
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt -
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson -
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino -
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
Harold Prince
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
Walter Lang -
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova -
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons -
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
Dalai Lama -
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.
Donald Trump, Jr. -
When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune' magazine because it processed over ten percent of NASDAQ's daily trading volume. I had achieved what I thought was the pinnacle of success in this proud, techno-capitalist country.
Omar Amanat -
AI is much more advanced than people realize. ... Humanity's position on this planet depends on its intelligence so if our intelligence is exceeded, it's unlikely that we will remain in charge of the planet.
Elon Musk -
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
Van Deren Coke -
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
Flannery O'Connor