Alex Haley Quotes

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer. White people come up to me and tell me that Roots has started them thinking about their own families and where they came from. I think the book has touched a strong, subliminal pulse.

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• Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Golf

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Up
  • Music
  • City

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Baseball
  • Lovely
  • Enjoyed

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
  • Consistency

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Past
  • Years
  • Stronger

• “It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.”

  

  T. R. Pearson
  • Forever
  • Situations

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Mistake
  • Period

• I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I have probably profiled hundreds of people over the years, people in very powerful positions. People don't always like what I write, but most people still talk to me.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • People
  • Career
  • Political

• When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer. White people come up to me and tell me that Roots has started them thinking about their own families and where they came from. I think the book has touched a strong, subliminal pulse.

  

  Alex Haley
  • People
  • Up
  • Great