Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.Anna Deavere Smith
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch -
If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
Baba Kalyani -
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
You just have to take control of your own performance.
Damian Lewis
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
Feist -
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan -
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
Becky Lynch -
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
Jack Buck -
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
Nancy Sinatra -
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown -
Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
T. Boone Pickens
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Oscar Wilde -
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
Gene Luen Yang -
And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.
David Jeremiah -
And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.
Umberto Eco -
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
Anna Deavere Smith