Alicia Garza Quotes

Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.

Alicia Garza

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• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • High
  • Theatre

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Long
  • Language
  • Voice

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Happens

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • After

• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Call
  • Falls
  • Niagara

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

  

  Deion Sanders
  • Morning

• So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• If you're black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of 'conditioning' where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body.

  

  David Harewood
  • Black

• I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

  

  Allan Dwan
  • Eyes

• I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • People