Taraji P. Henson Quotes

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• I believe in aging gracefully.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Aging

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Way
  • Appearance

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Teach

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

  

  Kimberly Caldwell
  • School
  • Drawing

• I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Busy time of the year! I hope you are doing alright. Take care of yourself.

  

  Brent Iverson
  • Time
  • Care
  • Yourself

• You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Night

• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Hate
  • Desire
  • Paradox

• Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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