Beverly Jenkins Quotes

She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Training
  • Japanese
  • Watch

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Successful
  • Pressure
  • Become

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • High
  • Fly
  • Feet

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Free
  • Growth

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Difference

• I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Drama

• The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Time
  • Children
  • Day

• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Good
  • English
  • Educated

• I love my family.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Family
  • Love
  • I Love

• That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Heaven
  • Fairness

• The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music
  • Words
  • Problem

• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Men
  • Real
  • Technology

• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Problem
  • Mechanic
  • Magician

• She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Problem
  • Achieve
  • Gender