Luvvie Ajayi Quotes
Do one thing today that scares you - and you already know what that is! - and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.
Quotes to Explore
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
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The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.
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I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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Do one thing today that scares you - and you already know what that is! - and go do it. Even if you just make one step toward it, it will help you look at the world differently.
