Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

There are two types of people in this world: people who can be on time and Nigerians. I am in the latter group, and I confess to my inability to arrive anywhere punctually.

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
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• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

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• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

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• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
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• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
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• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
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• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
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• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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• I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

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• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

  

  Gay Talese
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• The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
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• The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
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• I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

  

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• There are two types of people in this world: people who can be on time and Nigerians. I am in the latter group, and I confess to my inability to arrive anywhere punctually.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
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