Leroy Hood Quotes
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
C. Everett Koop -
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien -
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Dana Hussein -
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher -
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson -
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson -
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Fiona Apple
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
Dan Hill -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
Usher
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Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.
China Forbes -
How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
Ursula K. Le Guin -
They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.
Haki R. Madhubuti -
A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
Georges St-Pierre -
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James W. Black -
My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
Leroy Hood