Amandla Stenberg Quotes

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

Amandla Stenberg

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• I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
  • Parents

• At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Passion
  • Acting
  • First

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• Love prefers twilight to daylight.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Twilight

• It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Media
  • News

• I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Decisions
  • Vote

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Practice
  • Values

• I've never personally been anorexic.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Never
  • Been
  • Personally

• Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Westerns

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Great
  • Music
  • Strong

• It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Judge

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Important
  • Health
  • Problem

• Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Control
  • Environment
  • Military

• 'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Good
  • Real
  • Fun

• Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Pain
  • Police
  • Savage