George Elliott Clarke Quotes

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

George Elliott Clarke

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• As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Never
  • Cheesy
  • Eggs

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • American
  • Tea

• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • History
  • Sun

• Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • People

• We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Movie

• We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

  

  Dwayne Andreas
  • World
  • Food

• For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Explore

• I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'

  

  David Archuleta
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• If you can, you must.

  

  Bikram Choudhury

• People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

  

  Jenny Lawson
  • People
  • Women
  • Pretty

• I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Character
  • Dark

• Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• PRETTY LITTLE LIARS works as a metaphor for our central human experience: we have no way to objectively know about anything, no way to move forward with certainty, and yet move forward we must. We stumble through life, trying to find our own way, not knowing whom to listen to, whom to trust, whom to suspect, what to believe. But in that process we discover our most authentic selves.

  

  Norman Buckley
  • Knowing
  • Forward
  • Metaphor

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

  

  George Elliott Clarke
  • Boxing
  • Remains
  • Metaphor