Wanda Coleman (the L.A. Blueswoman) Quotes

Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

Wanda Coleman

• Perfect
• Childhood
• Los Angeles
• Nonsense

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• I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

  

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• What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

  

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• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

  

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• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  

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• It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

  

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• The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

  

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• Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.

  

  Wanda Coleman
  • Perfect
  • Childhood
  • Los Angeles