Lucille Clifton Quotes
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.Lucille Clifton
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
Florence Henderson -
For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
Warren G -
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
Ted Kotcheff -
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
Sam Graves -
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
Barry Diller
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson -
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry -
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
Gagan Narang -
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
Barry Commoner -
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Beck -
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
Jackie Evancho
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
Karrine Steffans -
Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
Karlie Kloss -
I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
Carla Hall -
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
J. D. Hayworth
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
Edward Burnett Tylor -
People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.
Joanna Newsom -
That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.
Christina Aguilera -
Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.
Nirmala Srivastava -
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.
Lucille Clifton