Samira Wiley Quotes
It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.Samira Wiley
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer -
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
Dana Carvey -
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
T. J. Perkins -
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard -
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu -
I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
Taylor Swift -
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
Calista Flockhart -
We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
Natalie Massenet -
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
Famke Janssen
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
Lafcadio Hearn -
You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
Ed Harris -
A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
Sam Brownback -
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
Hans Kung -
I'm far from being a homosexual.
Magic Johnson
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Walter Gropius -
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady Gaga -
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Gay comes in all shapes, sizes, strengths, and personalities. Just like straight does. It shouldn't be news that- guess what - some gay people don't fit your stereotype.
Donna Brazile -
Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length.
Dave Eggers -
It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
Samira Wiley