Angela Davis Quotes

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • Great
  • Night
  • Attitude

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Great
  • Children
  • Dad

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Start

• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Tough

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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  • Black
  • Funny

• As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • You
  • Know
  • Interview

• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Journey
  • Stupid

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Decisions
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  • Meetings

• I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Style
  • Quality
  • Try

• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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  • Movies
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• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Hate
  • First Amendment

• I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Serious
  • Competition
  • Injuries

• I'm not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don't feel up to. It's not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don't know how people are able to manage that. I don't know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.

  

  Ellie Kemper
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  • Up
  • Alone

• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.

  

  Aldis Hodge
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• I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

  

  Angela Davis
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