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 -
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 -
I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Lee Krasner -
I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time.
Eliza Doolittle -
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball -
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person. It can feel like this enormous weight.
Amandla Stenberg