Luvvie Ajayi Quotes
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.Luvvie Ajayi
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus -
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel -
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking -
Money? I lost all taste for it.
Taylor Caldwell -
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
Madeleine Albright -
There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
Zack Snyder -
I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
Carly Fiorina -
We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
Randi Weingarten -
As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
Karen Finerman -
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener -
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
Garth Stein -
Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
Natalie Dormer -
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln -
I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Candace Camp -
For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.
Mario Andretti -
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
Owain Yeoman -
I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.
Emraan Hashmi -
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
Pierre Corneille -
I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.
Luvvie Ajayi