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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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'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.
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A lot of times when people cast me, they want this big, deep black voice... And I tend to recycle them with different roles from time to time.
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I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.
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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.
