Blake Roney Quotes
If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!Blake Roney
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I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.
Ice T -
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Nancy Pelosi -
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
Manny Pacquiao -
I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
Candice Olson -
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Camryn Manheim -
My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
Olivia Colman
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
Ian Mckellen -
It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
Sally Phillips -
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
Zadie Smith -
When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing.
Samantha Harvey -
People striving for approval from others become phony.
Ichiro Suzuki -
All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.
Matthew Desmond -
It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
Kimora Lee Simmons -
I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.
Emily Ratajkowski -
There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
Bill Hader -
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Dwight L. Moody -
You've got to introduce people to things in a way they're going to enjoy.
Ella Woodward
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There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.
Jeffrey Kluger -
I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.
Micheal Ray Stevenson -
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
David Blunkett -
Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
Pete Seeger -
If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!
Blake Roney