Clara Fraser Quotes
All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!Clara Fraser
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
Ja Rule -
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara -
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz -
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
Orlando Bloom -
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Nathalie Kelley -
Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
Rachel Swirsky
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
T. J. Perkins -
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler -
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott -
The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
M. Stanton Evans -
Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
Calvin Johnson
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
Sam Altman -
I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
Candis Cayne -
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
Alfred North Whitehead -
P. 27.
Amitabh Bachchan -
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus -
I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
Patti Smith
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I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
Lisa Marie Presley -
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller -
It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
J Mascis -
My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.
Dara Khosrowshahi -
All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!
Clara Fraser