Harry Belafonte Quotes

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. … You should go through life knowing, 'I am somebody.'

Harry Belafonte

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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V. S. Naipaul
- Up
- World
- Children
We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

Tamsin Greig
- Life
- Great
- Long
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Xavier Becerra
- World
- Important
- Country
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson
- World
- Today
- Earth
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright
- World
- Work
- Men
Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Barbet Schroeder
- Life
- Time
- Yourself