Amandla Stenberg Quotes
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.Amandla Stenberg
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap -
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone -
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
Sade Adu -
I always drive like a madman.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke -
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
Walt Mossberg
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal -
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
Yohan Blake -
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula -
A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
Harold E. Hughes -
No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
Mara Wilson -
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
Raha Moharrak -
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow -
I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
Nathan Fillion -
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie -
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier
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Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
Kim Young-woon -
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.
Eric Burdon -
I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams-Judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place.
Jenny Lewis -
Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.
Patti LuPone -
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
Amandla Stenberg