Alex Haley Quotes
The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.Alex Haley
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
E. M. Forster -
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch -
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
Rachel Kushner
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David -
It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone -
I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
Natalie Maines -
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria -
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
Vince Vaughn
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
Paloma Faith -
It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
Zack Greinke -
The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
Halima Aden -
I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
Larry Wall -
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
Zac Brown Band -
Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.
E. F. Benson -
I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.
Andrea Seigel -
There we all were … looking like the family that does the MOST POOS in the world. The fact is, we don’t just use toilet paper in the toilet. We use it for other stuff around the house …
Anh Do -
The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley