Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes

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• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Holiday

• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Opinion
  • Assumptions

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Great
  • Script

• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Acting

• More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • World
  • May
  • Language

• You don't even have to be able to talk. Just sing and get famous. 'Cause James Brown's been singin' 30 years. I don't know what the fuck James is talkin' about!

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Famous

• I want to see America set the example to the world both in our domestic and foreign relations of magnanimity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • America

• The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Why
  • Angry

• We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Door

• I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Different
  • Death
  • Band

• I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it.

  

  Lauren Potter
  • People
  • World

• I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Life

• As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Professional

• China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Start

• Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Work
  • Guides
  • White People