Amandla Stenberg Quotes

It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.

Amandla Stenberg

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• I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.

  

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• I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

  

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• You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.

  

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• I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

  

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• You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

  

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• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

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• When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

  

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• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  

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• I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

  

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• I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

  

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• I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

  

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• This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

  

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• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  

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• What I like about Rebel's style of comedy is she never plays the victim... she's never been fazed by her shape; it's just the way it is. She would mock her appearance whatever she looked like.

  

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• Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

  

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• I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

  

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  

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• He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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• Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

  

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• The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Passionate
  • Actually
  • Thinks