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
  • School

• 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

• Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

  

  Don King
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Of course China, of course Mexico do not want Donald Trump. They know if he gets in and becomes President of the United States, the days of taking advantage of the United States are over.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Trump

• Who is sitting in that empty chair?

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Empty
  • Sitting
  • Chair

• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

  

  William Feather
  • Struggle
  • Happiness
  • Quitting

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

  

  George Elliott Clarke
  • Boxing
  • Remains
  • Metaphor