Angie Thomas Quotes

At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Up
  • Money
  • Possibilities

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

  

  Oren Peli
  • History
  • Know
  • Find

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Money
  • Value

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • High
  • Happiness

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Small
  • Island

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • People
  • Writing
  • Design

• I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • People
  • Famous

• You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • People
  • Mind
  • Health

• At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • People
  • Life
  • Time