Angela Rye Quotes
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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I've been very lucky.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
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When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
