Angela Davis Quotes
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
-
I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
-
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
-
What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
-
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
-
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
-
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
-
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
-
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
-
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
-
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
-
You get steely nerves playing poker.
-
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
-
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
-
The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
-
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
-
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
-
Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
-
I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.
-
We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
-
My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
-
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
