Louis Stokes Quotes

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

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• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Proud
  • Brand
  • British

• The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Government
  • Powerful
  • Turkey

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Find
  • Army
  • Darkness

• I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• There is no such things as 'Islamic terrorism,' because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term 'Islamic terrorism' has become widespread.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Islamic

• The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

  

  Kiran Desai

• I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Parents

• Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude le remplit.

  

  Marcel Proust

• I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.

  

  David Harewood
  • Women
  • School
  • Together

• To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Gold

• I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Character

• The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Giving
  • Control
  • Action

• I don't exercise. I'm skinny fat. I worry about being too skinny. You should see my brother, he's, like, emaciated. We both just happen to be really skinny.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Worry
  • Brother
  • Exercise

• Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

  

  Bharati Mukherjee

• A man is powerful on his knees.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Powerful
  • Knees

• There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

  

  Louis Stokes