Allen West Quotes

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

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• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

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• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
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• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
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• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
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• My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

  

  Victor Mitchell
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• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
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• You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
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• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
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  • Talk
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• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  

  Tammy Bruce
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  • Brother
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• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
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• Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
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  • Annoying

• I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Explore

• I got invited to what's called the Gifting Suite in Toronto. I had the day off, so I thought I'd go and see what's what. You come out laden with wonderful stuff. Apparently, if you go to the Oscars, you get given things like iPads. Not that I'm in it for the swag.

  

  Lesley Manville

• Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

  

  Cherie Blair
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  • Nice
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• France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

  

  Bernard Liautaud

• Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

  

  Nagai Sōkichi
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• I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

  

  Allen West
  • Good
  • Important
  • Black