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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

  

  James Douglas
  • Thoughts
  • Tree

• Words do not pay for my dead people.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • People
  • Words

• Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Music
  • Today

• Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

  

  Bing Gordon
  • People
  • Good
  • Style

• Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Think
  • Bold

• 'Gilmore Girls' was a passion of mine, to the point where Lennon actually can't watch it because if she does, then we might be fully ripping them off.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Passion
  • Gilmore Girls

• I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Funny
  • Military
  • Service

• 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