Attica Locke Quotes

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige.

Attica Locke

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• When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Think
  • Fashion

• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
  • Chef

• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Movies

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  

  Karen Morley
  • King
  • Popular
  • Daily

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Happiness

• I am meeting Diaspora Jews all the time, and we are developing programmes to prevent distancing. We have a joint history, but we cannot take matters for granted. Israel is home for all of us, and part of the beauty of the country is its social diversity.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Country
  • Home

• I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Obsession

• The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Constitution

• I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Job
  • Science
  • Past

• The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Political
  • Serious

• The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Single

• Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Party

• You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.

  

  Cam
  • You
  • Hear
  • Eat

• With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Reading

• Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Control
  • Immigrant

• Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.

  

  Angelus Silesius

• There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Believe
  • History
  • Importance

• There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

  

  John Garfield
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige.

  

  Attica Locke
  • Money
  • Beige
  • Decor