A. Philip Randolph Quotes
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
