Lucille Clifton Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
Rafael dos Anjos -
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
Carlos Santana Santana -
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk -
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
Rabih Alameddine -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
Fashion breaks my heart.
Kanye West
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner -
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
Adam Beach -
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
Langston Hughes -
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
Rachel Weisz -
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
Aaron Sanchez -
Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
Ted Bell -
Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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I've got a stack of the 'Walking Dead' comic books next to my bed here.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan -
Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.
Ansel Elgort -
I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
Philip Treacy -
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
Willem Dafoe -
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
Lucille Clifton