Amiri Baraka Quotes

You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Age
  • Think
  • Science

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Running

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Men
  • Science
  • Dying

• I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

  

  Jazmine Sullivan
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Why
  • Strong

• There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • God

• If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • People
  • Game
  • Night

• You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Long
  • Struggle