Edward Wilmot Blyden Quotes

I would rather be a member of this Afrikan race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

Edward Wilmot Blyden

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• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Television

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Travel
  • Cold
  • Really

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• I love Al Pacino.

  

  Rain
  • Love
  • I Love
  • al

• My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Childhood

• I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Mistake

• He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Good

• I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Words
  • Puppy

• 'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham

• I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Nature

• It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Done

• English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.

  

  David Crystal
  • History
  • Science
  • English

• I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • People
  • Respect

• There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

  

  Chuck Grassley
  • Money

• I'm an American so its kind of hard for me to talk about 9/11. So whenever someone brings it up in a conversation, I say "I didn't like 9/11."

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • American
  • Funny

• I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • Latin
  • Greek

• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  

  Eleonora Duse
  • People
  • Art
  • Drama

• It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

  

  Debbie Allen

• I would rather be a member of this Afrikan race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden
  • Greek
  • Member
  • African