Esi Edugyan Quotes

To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

Esi Edugyan

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• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Change
  • Design
  • Process

• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• Okay, I’m going to go –- now, the one thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go boy, girl, boy, girl to make sure that it’s fair, because one thing I didn’t say in my initial speech is societies that are most successful also treat their women and girls with respect. Otherwise, they won’t be successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Respect

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • America
  • Moon

• We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

  

  Nelly Sachs
  • Freedom
  • Air

• I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Galaxy

• Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Food

• I've always wanted to act since I was little.

  

  Alanna Ubach

• Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.

  

  Bernard Hopkins

• I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.

  

  Kelly Rutherford
  • People
  • School
  • Power

• We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • People
  • Together

• As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

  

  William Blake
  • Earth
  • Imagination
  • Heaven

• Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.

• To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.

  

  Esi Edugyan
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Chocolate