Kasi Lemmons Quotes

I'm able to inspire other people, to see the potential of a career, they can look to me and see that they can do it.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Mind
  • Player

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Problem

• Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Director
  • Keep
  • Contact

• The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Need
  • Will

• Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Free
  • Minds
  • Would

• Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...

  

  Karl Jaspers

• I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Trying
  • Powerful
  • Baby

• Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Bad
  • Confidence

• People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Tired

• I have a team around me to support me.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Team
  • Support

• It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Different
  • Kids

• People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

  

  Billy Childish
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Up
  • Amazing

• I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Good
  • Proud

• I'm able to inspire other people, to see the potential of a career, they can look to me and see that they can do it.

  

  Kasi Lemmons
  • People
  • Inspire
  • Potential