Amandla Stenberg Quotes
I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person. It can feel like this enormous weight.Amandla Stenberg
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins -
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
Salman Rushdie -
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
Kapil Sibal
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
Dan Stevens -
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport -
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Harold Prince -
Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
R. Kelly -
We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
Dan Gilbert
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
Salman Khan -
In the end, crime doesn't pay.
Lane Garrison -
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
Orhan Pamuk -
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.
Abigail Johnson -
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
Otto Hahn
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
Sally Ride -
I love doing voiceover work.
Dakota Goyo -
The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the real world. To be 'othered' within the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the outside world, existing in the margins of society for decades witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman -
Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Marty Meehan -
I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person. It can feel like this enormous weight.
Amandla Stenberg