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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• 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.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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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.

  

  Patrick Henry
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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.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Death
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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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• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
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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.'

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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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• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

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• Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  

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• Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

  

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• If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

  

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• "When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov"

  

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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.

  

  Angela Rye
  • Work
  • Father
  • Black