Audre Lorde Quotes

I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

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• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wife

• You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Job
  • You
  • Show

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Want
  • Science
  • Project

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• We are all fools when one wise man appears.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wise

• Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Free
  • Value

• The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Up

• I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Free

• I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Different
  • Today

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Small
  • Prayer

• For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Life

• How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

  

  Dan Burton
  • Food
  • Drug
  • Safe

• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Competition
  • Innovation

• I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

  

  David Blaine
  • Magic

• To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

  

  George A. Moore
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Purpose

• I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

  

  Audre Lorde
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