Paloma Faith Quotes

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

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• The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sorry

• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Great
  • Game
  • Interesting

• I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Trust
  • Find

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

  

  Raekwon
  • Problem
  • Successful
  • Cats

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Money
  • Night
  • Lie

• I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • World
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Done
  • Greatest
  • Excuses

• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Working

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Real
  • Character
  • Myself

• Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Learning

• The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.

  

  John Buchan
  • Fashion

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Think
  • Child